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Halswell, Christchurch

11,515 council reports since May 2015, the 9th busiest suburb in the city. 8,874 photographs on record. 13,620 people at the 2023 Census, 597 to the square kilometre across 23 km².

Reports, all time
11,515
In the year to 12 Oct 2026
1,783
Busiest in Christchurch
9th
Photographs
8,874

The record also holds about $697 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 8,874 photographs 20 old photographs 5 schools 40 parks 2 civic facilities 4 places of worship 14 tracks 16 names on the map 12.3% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC2 in 2011 the record drew water over 6% of the outline ecological sites over 2% of the outline high flood hazard over 1% of the outline noise overlays over 9% of the outline setback strips over 3% of the outline 5% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays 1,719 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 42.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline 13 remembered names on this ground 16 drawn rules bind this ground 10 parcels on the dangerous-work register 734 parcels of made ground 5 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly possible 125 council structures on the register 51 recreation register records 9,177 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 3% of the outline reserved 5 places on the heritage schedule 70 epicentres inside the outline 279 injury crashes 2,262 recorded victimisations 70 bus stops 80 businesses the council’s fix times 8 heritage places 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

$697/week middle half $658–$720

New bonds here ran at about $697 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $658 and $720, across 54 bonds lodged, up 4% on a year ago. That’s about $147 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Halswell West, Halswell North and Halswell South areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $697 a week · 27 new bonds
  • 4-bedroom house, $730 a week · 12 new bonds
  • 3-bedroom house, $680 a week · 9 new bonds

Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter; suburb figures are a bond-weighted blend of the areas. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.

The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 12% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC2, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 5 schools, 40 parks, 2 civic facilities, 4 places of worship, 14 tracks and 70 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 1,783 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 29 March 2024, 30 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
10,443
Under 15
20%
65 and over
13%
Occupied households
3,732

About 10,443 people and 3,732 occupied private households in the “Halswell South”, “Halswell South East”, “Hoon Hay West”, “Halswell North”, “Halswell West” and “Halswell South West” areas, grouped from 67 SA1 areas. Several statistical areas are combined here, so this is a grouped proxy rather than a count for one suburb boundary.

More of the 2023 Census
  • Born overseas32% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity71% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity6% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity2% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity25% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet94% of stated households

Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.

Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.

About the suburb

Originally a separate village, Halswell is now a residential suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) southwest of Cathedral Square on State Highway 75.

the encyclopaedia’s version · Wikipedia · population: Stats NZ 2023 Census SA2 counts; the area is measured from the suburb outline

As reported 8,874 on record

William Brittan Ave848 Cashmere Road, Halswell32 James Hight Dr21 Cork Street, Halswell13 Westlake Dr31 Sutherlands Rd 8,874 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 20 in the archive

Guns Of The 'E' Battery Field Artillery In Action During The Manœuvres At Halswell, Christchurch, February 23, 1910, 1910Halswell Memorial Gates being built by W. Winsor, builder, of Spreydon, 1923, 1920Halswell Memorial Gates under construction by W. Winsor, builder, of Spreydon, 1923, 1920Aerial photomosaic of Halswell Road, 1926Aerial photomosaic of Halswell and Sparks Road, 1926Harriers - Halswell - Christchurch (PB1911/1), 1934Harriers - Halswell - Christchurch (PB1911/13), 1934Harriers - Halswell - Christchurch (PB1911/2), 1934Harriers - Halswell - Christchurch (PB1911/3), 1934Harriers - Halswell - Christchurch (PB1911/4), 1934 20 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The record on Halswell

Lately the newest reports

Damaged Street Sign, a report photo
Damaged Street SignWilliam Brittan Ave

Walking bar has been ripped out of the crossing . Also the give way sign has snapped off from the ground and is lying on someone’s lawn

Water General, a report photo
Water General21 Cork Street

I was doing my front garden and uncovered the join just to the house side of the water main box. it has been joined with an elbow which means the pipe is…

Reports per year up 9% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Trees & parks 2,889
Roads & footpaths 2,746
Water & drains 1,943
Rubbish & dumping 1,677
Graffiti & vandalism 1,446
Vehicles & parking 406
Everything else 293
Animals & pests 94 Noise 21

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Halswell →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 18,488 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Halswell took 5 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 536 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 16 September 2018.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Alcohol rules on this ground

5 sensitive sites stand here, Knights Stream School- Mingimingi Hautoa, Oaklands Te Kura o Ōwaka, Seven Oaks School, Seven Oaks Secondary School, Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of them.

The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.

The suburb today

Schools here 5

Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Villa Maria College · and 3 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws from, not how well it teaches.

The green here 40

The first eight of 40, Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf 2

Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.

Where the suburb worships 4

Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.

The tracks through here 14

The first eight of 14, Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The names on this ground 16

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 12.3% of this outline, about 281 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The 2011 grading filed 16.7% of this outline, about 380 hectares, mostly TC2, with TC3 19 ha · TC2 360 ha · TC1 1 ha. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.

The flood record drew water over 6.3% of this outline, about 144 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

No named slope-hazard band reaches this outline. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 1% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

10 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, 5 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 734 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 241 hectares, mostly silt, engineered fill, topsoil, 4 carry fill the file can’t vouch for. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

5 parcels inside this outline carry a cleanup on the file. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance; the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 37% of this outline in the possible class, 72% of the outline fell inside an assessed area, and 3 assessed areas here carry the free-face flag for possible lateral spreading. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The council’s structure register stands 125 assets on this ground, 42 bridges, 38 shelters, 23 sets of steps, 8 viewing platforms, sited at Te Hapua Halswell Centre, Halswell Domain, Opouira Knights Stream Park, Sparks Wetland. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 51 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 10 football, 7 cricket, 6 softball, 5 basketball. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 9,177 living trees inside this outline, 153 veterans among them, 31 carrying a protection, mostly Kowhai, Yoshino Cherry, Red maple. The file remembers 1,595 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 20% of this outline under Rural Urban Fringe, 36% residential, the rest mostly Residential New Neighbourhood 16%, Residential Suburban 15%, 72% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan reserves about 74 hectares of this outline, 3%, under 4 designations, mostly movement, learning. A designation is a claim on the ground, not a build date, the mix is read from a sampled join; the whole register is drawn at /designations.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 5 places by name in this suburb, 3 graded highly significant, Halswell War Memorial and Setting, St Mary's Church and Setting, St Mary's Church Graveyard among them. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 2% of this outline, about 44 hectares across 3 scheduled sites, 1% of it Schedule B, identified on private land but not yet protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s flood map draws 1% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 29 hectares across 2 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 19% of it, Halswell, Heathcote River. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s noise overlays cover 9% of this outline, about 206 hectares across 1 mapped overlay, and inside the airport’s bird-strike buffer. Shares read from a sampled join; a planning line, not a meter’s reading. The quiet lines are drawn at /noise.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 180 classified reaches, the plan calling Miln Drain and Nottingham Stream by name, 3% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 5% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing New Neighbourhood. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 1,719 photographs on this ground, 2010–2016, wastewater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The pedal network threads this ground, 42.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 0.1 km of it separated from the traffic, Little River Link, Quarryman's Trail. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 13 inscribed plaques, Halswell Domain, Westlake Reserve, Te Hapua Halswell Centre among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 16 drawn instruments, 9 of them dog rules, 1 camping zone, a certified self-contained van can stay the night at Christchurch Urban Restricted Area, 6 bottle-store buffers; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 70 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.8 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 279 injury crashes

279 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Halswell's outline, 11 people killed, 69 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Springs Road at Marshs Road, 11 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 2,262 recorded victimisations

2,262 victimisations on the Police record inside Halswell’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 54 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 20% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 70 stops

70 Metro stops inside Halswell's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 7, route 125, route 100, route 80, route 81, route 60.

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 80 in the directory

80 premises in Halswell across 28 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

Among them, the ones the record says most about:

The whole directory →

Before any of that

On the register here

  1. Former Dwelling and setting, Halswell Quarry Manager's Residence, Garden and Garage
  2. Former Halswell Quarry
  3. Former Halswell Quarry Singlemen’s Quarters and Setting
  4. Halswell War Memorial and Setting
  5. Remaining Former Halswell Quarry Crusher Buildings, Foundations, Retaining Walls and Setting
  6. St Mary's Church and Setting
  7. St Mary's Church Graveyard
  8. St Mary's Church Lychgate and Setting

The register’s own page for Halswell →

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Halswell, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 19 April 1851)…ief surveyor map no 116 l p lee 50 acres commencing t the junction of two branches of the halswell river 5 chains or thereabouts from trig stationno 6 c ascending the eastern branch 25 chains then acr…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE TOWN OF LYTTELTON. (Lyttelton Times, 09 July 1853)…yttelton london street lyttelton wellington and lyttelton oxford terrace westchristchurch halswell station winchester street lyttelton lyttelton dublin street dublin street canterbury street section n…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853)…freehold house and land above the annual value of b part of rural section no 252 freehold halswell station lincoln district householder at ohinetahi governor bay port victoria house and 6 acres of lan…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 July 1854)…particulars apply to john t parkin son mahoenui or mitie hotel lyttelton beaumont station halswell river rjattle run on the above stationat the usual terms this station is ten miles from christchurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 08 July 1854)…particulars apply to john t parkinson mahoenui or mitre hotel lyttelton beaumont station halswell river battle run on the above station at the usual terms this station is ten miles from christchurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 15 July 1854)…articulars apply to john t paekinson mahoenui or mitre hotel lyttelton i beaumont station halswell river battle run on the above station at the usual terms this station is ten miles from christchurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE TOWN OF LYTTELTON. (Lyttelton Times, 22 July 1854)…6 lyttelton burke michael john burrell john chaney william clarkson joseph clarkson david halswell station winchester street lyttelton lyttelton dublin street dublin street barrister-at-iaw servant j…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 22 July 1854)…river punt will carry a cord of firewood apply to william white kaiapoi beaumont station halswell river gattle run on the above station at the usual terms this station is ten miles from christchurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 29 July 1854)…nnd jvf nicukis appy t0 johw t pakkinaon mahoeuuiormitre hotel lyttelton beaumont station halswell river qattlerunon the above station at the usual terms this station is ten miles from christchurch ex…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 05 August 1854)…acres in the canterbury block apply to a j alport lyttelton june 2 1854 beaumont station halswell biver pattle run on the above station at the usual terms this station is ten miles from christchurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Halswell 5 lately

Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board — 4.30 pm, 13 Oct 2026The council · Christchurch City Council ·
Information Session/Workshop - Waipuna Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board, 13 Oct 2026The council · Christchurch City Council ·
Australian Pug Moth seen — Patterson Tce near Brigham Dr, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New ZealandiNaturalist · squidney8 ·
Something seen — Caulfield Ave near Piper St, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New ZealandiNaturalist · iraeva ·
Rhicnobelus seen — Patterson Tce near Brigham Dr, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New ZealandiNaturalist · squidney8 ·

The whole wire →

78 more documents came up in searches for Halswell's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.

Next door

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Compare Halswell with Aidanfield · Wigram · Kennedys Bush · Prebbleton · Westmorland · Hoon Hay, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Halswell?

Originally a separate village, Halswell is now a residential suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) southwest of Cathedral Square on State Highway 75. The public record holds 11,515 council reports for it, the first filed in May 2015.

How many people live in Halswell?

13,620 people at the 2023 Census, 597 per square kilometre across 23 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Halswell?

About 10,443 people and 3,732 occupied private households (combined SA2s): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.

What gets reported in Halswell?

11,515 reports on record, most often trees & parks (2,889), roads & footpaths (2,746), water & drains (1,943). 1,783 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.

How many crashes has Halswell had?

279 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 11 people killed, 69 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

Did earthquakes strike under Halswell?

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 70 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M4.8 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →

Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →