Harewood, Christchurch
2,068 council reports since June 2015, the 62nd busiest suburb in the city. 1,543 photographs on record. 1,390 people at the 2023 Census, 121 to the square kilometre across 12 km².
The record also holds 2023 Census snapshot· 1,543 photographs· 82 old photographs· 1 school· 14 parks· 2 places of worship· 6 tracks· 6 names on the map· 0.9% of the outline mapped liquefied· graded mostly TC2 in 2011· ecological sites over 3% of the outline· landscape schedules over 2% of the outline· high flood hazard over 4% of the outline· noise overlays over the whole outline· setback strips over 4% of the outline· 231 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 18.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 1 remembered name on this ground· 6 drawn rules bind this ground· 11 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 135 parcels of made ground· 3 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly possible· 38 council structures on the register· 31 recreation register records· 1,964 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 9% of the outline reserved· 4 places on the heritage schedule· 1 epicentre inside the outline· 194 injury crashes· 1,171 recorded victimisations· 12 bus stops· 39 businesses· the council’s fix times· 5 heritage places· 40 documents· 5 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
Rent: too few new bonds lodged here for Tenancy Services to publish a median this quarter, the last figure it released was about $700 a week, and it counts this under the “Harewood” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. 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 1% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC2, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 1 school, 14 parks, 2 places of worship, 6 tracks and 12 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 308 reports in the year to 13 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 29 January 2026, 9 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 1,329 people and 501 occupied private households in the “Harewood” statistical area, grouped from 10 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas26% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity82% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity6% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity1% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity16% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet94% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles78% 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
Harewood is a northwestern suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The suburb is split by State Highway 1, with the bulk of Harewood's residential areas to the east of the highway and its industrial areas to the west. The suburb is a major transport hub and it encompasses the International Antarctic Centre.
As reported 1,543 on record
The suburb, back then 82 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Harewood
- Harewood enters the written record on 1 March 1851, “RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 01 March 1851)”, Papers Past.
- “Harewood” appears somewhere in 694 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: roading/streets, 19 June 2015, at 358-360 Sawyers Arms Rd.
- Its busiest day on record was 29 January 2026, 9 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Wooldridge Road, reported on 172 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Harewood ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Trees - General7 Kilmuir Ln
Hi there, there are a few dead trees, especially this big palm tree which needs cutting out and cleared. This particular tree is trying to fall into the walk…
Dumped Rubbish423A Harewood Rd
Always place rubbish by Walkway and Path by other people on Harewood Road 409 - 500.
Water FountainRoto Kohatu Reserve 1 Outlook Place
the spout on the water fountain is broken off and the water keeps running and can't be turned off
Reports per year up 33% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 3,887 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Harewood took 6 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 4 months or longer. 125 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 24 December 2020.
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
One sensitive site stands here, Harewood School, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of it.
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 1
- Harewood SchoolContributing · decile 8 · EQI 410
Zoned for Breens Intermediate · Christchurch Adventist School · Emmanuel Christian School · Harewood School · Marian College · Papanui High School · and 9 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 14
- Roto KohatuRegional · 46 ha
- Nunweek ParkSports ground · 20 ha · playground, 7 pieces
- Harewood ParkBotanic · 11 ha
- Styx River Reserve2 ha
- Smacks Creek Riverbank Reserve1 ha
- Smacks Creek Esplanade Reserve
- Hockey Parkplayground, 4 pieces
- Benmore Gardens Reserveplayground, 3 pieces
The first eight of 14, 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.
Where the suburb worships 2
- Saint Jamesan Anglican church · 750 Harewood Road
- St. Mary and St. Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Churcha Coptic Orthodox church · 290 Wooldridge Road
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 6
- Walk and bike track through Harewood3.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Harewood394 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Harewood389 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Harewood339 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Harewood124 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Harewood60 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
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 6
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.9% of this outline, about 11 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 2.3% of this outline, about 27 hectares, mostly TC2, with TC2 23 ha · TC1 4 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.
11 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, mineral extraction, refining and reprocessing, storage and use, 4 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 135 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 77 hectares, mostly engineered fill, pitrun, silt, 7 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.
3 parcels inside this outline carry a cleanup on the file, about 12 hectares, 2 marked verified. 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 60% of this outline in the possible class. 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 38 assets on this ground, 13 bridges, 10 boardwalks, 9 sets of steps, 3 jetties, sited at Roto Kohatu, Harewood Nursery, Smacks Creek Riverbank Reserve, Benmore Gardens Reserve. 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 31 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 17 touch rugby, 6 rugby, 4 hockey, 3 football. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 1,964 living trees inside this outline, 20 veterans among them, 80 carrying a protection, mostly Yoshino Cherry, Silver Birch, Canadian Poplar. The file remembers 609 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 26% of this outline under Rural Waimakariri, 7% residential, the rest mostly Rural Urban Fringe 24%, Rural Quarry 9%. 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 105 hectares of this outline, 9%, under 3 designations, mostly movement. 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 4 places by name in this suburb, 1 graded highly significant, Harewood Crematorium, Chapel and Setting, St James' Church and Setting, St James' 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 3% of this outline, about 33 hectares across 3 scheduled sites, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.
The plan’s landscape schedules cover 2% of this outline, about 20 hectares across 1 scheduled area. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.
The plan’s flood map draws 4% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 46 hectares across 2 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 2% of it, Lower Styx 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 all of this outline, about 1,151 hectares across 9 mapped overlays, 95% of it inside the airport’s air-noise contours, where the 55 dB line bites, 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, 62 classified reaches, the plan calling Otukaikino Creek and Styx River by name, 4% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 10 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 rebuild’s cameras filed 231 photographs on this ground, 2011–2013, 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, 18.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Wheels to Wings. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The remembered names stand on this ground, 1 inscribed plaque, Roto Kohatu 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, 6 drawn instruments, 2 of them dog rules, 4 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 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.2 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.
- Harewood Crematorium and Memorial Gardenscemetery
- Lake Rualake · Rua
- Lake Tahilake · Tahi
- Sawyers Arms Rdold dump · 1962–1986
- Shipleys Pit? Owned by Harewood piggeries & operation was taold dump · 1968–1983
- Smacks Creekwaterway · 0.4 km
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 194 injury crashes
194 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Harewood's outline, 7 people killed, 38 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: Harewood Road at Wooldridge Road, 17 injury crashes.
The crime record 1,171 recorded victimisations
1,171 victimisations on the Police record inside Harewood’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 220 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 7% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 12 stops
12 Metro stops inside Harewood's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 125, route 107, route 8.
- Gardiners Rd near Sawyers Arms Rd near Gardiners Rd
- Gardiners Rd near Sawyers Arms Rd near Gardiners Road
- Gardiners Rd near Smacks Cl near Gardiners Rd
- Gardiners Rd near Smacks Cl near Gardiners Rd
- Harewood Rd near Crofton Rd
- Harewood Rd near Nunweek Blvd near Harewood Rd
- Harewood Rd near Nunweek Blvd near Harewood Rd
- Harewood Rd near Trafford St
- Harewood Rd near Waimakariri Rd near Harewood Rd
- Harewood Rd near Waimakariri Rd near Harewood Rd
- Harewood Rd near Wooldridge Rd near Harewood Rd
- Harewood Rd near Wooldridge Rd near Harewood Rd
Businesses here 39 in the directory
39 premises in Harewood across 24 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
- Fast food7
- Cafés4
- Petrol stations4
- Attractions2
- B&Bs2
- Garden centres2
- Bakeries1
- Bars & pubs1
- Bottle stores1
- Campgrounds1
- Car washes1
- Clubs1
- Dairies & convenience1
- Firewood1
- Fruit & veg1
- Guest houses1
- Hairdressers1
- Hardware1
- Laundromats1
- Research1
- Restaurants1
- Storage1
- Venues & events1
- Wineries1
Among them, the ones the record says most about:
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Harewood, 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.
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RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 01 March 1851)
…the cbristchurch district commencing at the junction of the town reserve with lincoln and harewood road frontage along the said road 14 chains 55 links then south at a right angle 40 chains then east…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 22 March 1851)
…istchurch district commencing at about 3 miles 51 chains on the road from christchurch to harewood direct frontage on the road 33 chains 75 links then in a north easterly direction 40 chains then sout…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 29 March 1851)
…acres in the christchuicli district commencing about 2 miles 45 drams on the lincoln and harewood road following the said road 12 and a-half chains in a westerly direction then southerly at a right a…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 19 April 1851)
…8 w broughton 50 acres in the christchurch district with frontage to the christchurch and harewood road south side 12 chains back at right angles 40 chains width at back 2 ya chains bounded on the eas…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851)
…chief surveyor map no 134 t h harrison 50 acres in the oxford district in the vicinity of harewood forest and numbered 134 on the chief surveyor map no 135 e york 150 acres in the christchurch distric…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 03 May 1851)
…chief surveyor map no 149 denman 100 acres in the christchurch district commencing on the harewood road 50 links from south-west corner of section 68 frontage on the road 20 chains to the westward and…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The Lyttelton Times. (Lyttelton Times, 03 April 1852)
…the navigation of the courtenay a survey is also making of a line of road connecting the harewood road with the northern road in the christchurch district thus opening up a considerable portion of ne…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 May 1852)
…acres of rural section no 114 abundantly supplied with good water situated on the road to harewood and a short distance from riccarton apply to mr prichard solicitor christchurch at lyttelton the hous…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 07 August 1852)
…ortion of 50 acres known as brenchley farm port lyttelton no 201 two hundred acres in the harewood district…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852)
…ortion of 50 acres known as brenchley farm port lyttelton no 201 two hundred acres in the harewood district no 202 sixty-eight acres on the south side of the harbour of port victoria no 24 0 one hundr…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 Harewood 5 lately
Feral Pigeon seen — Harewood Rd near Cotswold Ave, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New ZealandiNaturalist · beetlebug89 ·
bristly oxtongue seen — Harewood, Christchurch 8051, New ZealandiNaturalist · luxarah ·
shepherd's-purse seen — Harewood, Christchurch 8051, New ZealandiNaturalist · luxarah ·
catchweed bedstraw seen — Harewood, Christchurch 8051, New ZealandiNaturalist · luxarah ·
broad-leaved dock seen — Harewood, Christchurch 8051, New ZealandiNaturalist · luxarah ·
92 more documents came up in searches for Harewood's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Harewood with Bishopdale · Christchurch Airport · Casebrook · Burnside · Northcote · Bryndwr, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Harewood?
Harewood is a northwestern suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The public record holds 2,068 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.
How many people live in Harewood?
1,390 people at the 2023 Census, 121 per square kilometre across 12 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Harewood?
About 1,329 people and 501 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Harewood?
2,068 reports on record, most often trees & parks (571), roads & footpaths (524), rubbish & dumping (476). 308 of them in the year to 13 October 2026.
How many crashes has Harewood had?
194 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 7 people killed, 38 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Harewood?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.2 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 →
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