Facility - General Request100 McMahon Drive
I witnessed 3 electric dirt bikes riding erratically around the fenced off athletics practise area at 4:40 doing skids and wheelies on the grass. Not sure of…
Hillmorton, Christchurch
3,926 council reports since June 2015, the 39th busiest suburb in the city. 3,177 photographs on record. 3,020 people at the 2023 Census, 1,014 to the square kilometre across 3.0 km².
The record also holds about $590 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 3,177 photographs· 1 school· 12 parks· 3 places of worship· 12 tracks· 5 names on the map· 9.7% of the outline mapped liquefied· graded mostly TC3 in 2011· the record drew water over 2% of the outline· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 2% of the outline· ecological sites over 7% of the outline· landscape schedules over 8% of the outline· noise overlays over 94% of the outline· setback strips over 7% of the outline· 18% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays· 1,100 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 13.0 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 6 remembered names on this ground· 11 drawn rules bind this ground· 2 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 58 parcels of made ground· 5 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly medium· 55 council structures on the register· 57 recreation register records· 2,528 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 10% of the outline reserved· the plan’s exceptions touch 2% of the outline· 1 place on the heritage schedule· 1 epicentre inside the outline· 185 injury crashes· 679 recorded victimisations· 14 bus stops· 42 businesses· the council’s fix times· 2 heritage places· 40 documents· 5 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$590/week
middle half $554–$643
New bonds here ran at about $590 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $554 and $643, across 12 bonds lodged, up 2% on a year ago. That’s about $40 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Hillmorton” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 1-bedroom house, $610 a week · 6 new bonds
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 10% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC3, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 1 school, 12 parks, 3 places of worship, 12 tracks and 14 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly graffiti & vandalism, 686 reports in the year to 10 October 2026, the newest 10 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 20 May 2019, 21 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 2,847 people and 1,110 occupied private households in the “Hillmorton” statistical area, grouped from 20 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
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
Hillmorton is a suburb of south-western Christchurch, New Zealand. The suburb is centred around the intersection of Lincoln Road and Hoon Hay Road, two arterial routes which form part of State Highway 75 and feed into the Christchurch Southern Motorway which runs to the north of the suburb.
As reported 3,177 on record
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Hillmorton
- Hillmorton enters the written record on 31 October 1868, “Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 31 October 1868)”, Papers Past.
- “Hillmorton” appears somewhere in 81 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: wastewater/stormwater, 10 June 2015, at 6 Guise Ln.
- Its busiest day on record was 20 May 2019, 21 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Halswell Road, reported on 336 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Hazard, vehicle83 Mokihi Gardens
staff vehicles parking for nearby Hillmorton Hospital, close to walkway to Annex Rd. But Mokihi Gdns is narrow residential street & my elderly mum's driveway…
Water GeneralAugustine Drive
line 17 on rl2 halway line pressure is significantly lower than rest of the system.
Facility - General Request19 Coppell Place
post and chain fence around pumpstation grounds is damaged.
Damaged Street Sign102f Curletts Road
would it be possible to have this sign plumbed before it annoys someone and they rip it out of the ground.
Reports per year up 19% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 5,497 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Hillmorton took 3 days to resolve, about the city-wide median (3 days). The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 158 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 7 October 2019.
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, Southern Health 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
- Southern Health SchoolSpecialist School · decile 1 · EQI 569
Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Sacred Heart School (Christchurch) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School · Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School · and 6 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 12
- Nga Puna WaiSports ground · 83 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Canterbury Agricultural ParkSports ground · 42 ha
- Seager Park3 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- West Watson Park3 ha · playground, 13 pieces
- Spreydon Riverbank Reserves1 ha
- Sunnyside Heritage GardenBotanic · 1 ha
- Pavilion Park
- Wolsey Playgroundplayground, 34 pieces
The first eight of 12, 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 3
- Carmelite Monasterya Catholic church
- Carmelite Monasterya Catholic church · 52 Halswell Road
- St Martin's - Spreydonan Anglican church · 50 Lincoln 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 12
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton5.1 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton4.5 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton1.1 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton1.1 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton677 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton417 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
The first eight of 12, 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 5
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 9.7% of this outline, about 29 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 5.4% of this outline, about 16 hectares, mostly TC3, with TC3 14 ha · TC2 2 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 1.5% of this outline, across 3 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.
2 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly vehicle refuelling, service and repair, 2 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 58 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 15 hectares, mostly silt, topsoil, mixed fill with demolition material, 5 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 53% of this outline in the medium 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 55 assets on this ground, 31 sets of steps, 9 bridges, 7 boardwalks, 4 ramps, sited at Nga Puna Wai, Canterbury Agricultural Park, STR_C_19 - Curletts Road, Seager Park. 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 57 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 18 tennis, 11 rugby league, 9 athletics, 9 long jump. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 2,528 living trees inside this outline, 9 veterans among them, 11 carrying a protection, mostly Oriental Plane, Pin Oak, English Oak. The file remembers 836 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 38% of this outline under Open Space Metropolitan Facilities, 25% residential, the rest mostly Medium density residential zone 18%, Transport 16%. 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 30 hectares of this outline, 10%, 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 exceptions touch 2% of this outline, 2 qualifying matters, mostly residential, section 6. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid; the mix is read from a sampled join, and the cultural-significance areas are the plan’s own unnamed ones. The whole register is drawn at /matters.
The plan’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, Former A & P Showgrounds Treasurer's Building and Setting. 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 schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 2% of this outline, ngā wai. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.
The plan’s ecological schedules cover 7% of this outline, about 22 hectares across 1 scheduled site, 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 8% of this outline, about 24 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.
No high-hazard flood area covers this outline. The broader flood-management watch covers 3% of it, 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 94% of this outline, about 279 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, 24 classified reaches, the plan calling Heathcote / Opawaho River and Paparua Stream by name, 7% 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, 18% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Medium Density. 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 1,100 photographs on this ground, 2011–2016, 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, 13.0 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 0.2 km of it separated from the traffic, Little River Link, Nor'West Arc. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The remembered names stand on this ground, 6 inscribed plaques, Canterbury Agricultural Park, Pavilion Park 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, 11 drawn instruments, 3 of them dog rules, 1 alcohol ban, 7 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 2011. 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.
- Wooden Seatlookout
- Wildlife Refugereservoir
- Curletts Main Drainwaterway · 0.1 km
- Hayton Streamwaterway · 3.1 km
- Ōpāwaho / Heathcote Riverwaterway · 30.7 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 185 injury crashes
185 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Hillmorton's outline, 3 people killed, 36 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: Lincoln Road at Sylvan Street, 10 injury crashes.
The crime record 679 recorded victimisations
679 victimisations on the Police record inside Hillmorton’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 60 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 11% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 14 stops
14 Metro stops inside Hillmorton's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 7.
- Halswell Rd near Coppell Pl near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Coppell Pl near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Hendersons Rd near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Hendersons Rd near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Rowley Ave near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Rowley Ave near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Tankerville Rd near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Tankerville Rd near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Warren Cres near Halswell Rd
- Halswell Rd near Warren Cres near SH-75
- Lincoln Rd near Domain Tce
- Lincoln Rd near Sylvan St
- Lincoln Rd near Torrens Rd near Lincoln Rd
- Lincoln Rd near Torrens Rd near Lincoln Rd
Businesses here 42 in the directory
42 premises in Hillmorton across 16 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
- Restaurants6
- Hospital5
- Bars & pubs4
- Bottle stores3
- Bakeries2
- Cafés2
- Doctors & clinics2
- Sports centres2
- Supermarkets2
- Car repair1
- Dairies & convenience1
- Motels1
- Petrol stations1
- Pharmacies1
- Vets1
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 Hillmorton, 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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Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 31 October 1868)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 05 January 1874)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 16 September 1878)
…by the firm of g hargreaves co after this date g hargreaves sept 14 1878 2166 for sale at hillmorton lincoln road quarter acre sections 42 46 50 51 47 43 and 39 price 50 terms small deposit balance in…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 20 September 1878)
…treet opposite the custom house fredk e a graham 1189 manager for oanterbnryi for sale at hillmorton lincoln road quarter-acre sections 42 46 50 51 47 43 and 39 price 50 terms small deposit balance in…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 26 October 1878)
…daltown papanui st albans woobton sandridge wilson nursery colombo street south addington hillmorton near carlton hotel cashel street east ric carton and sections in most of the townships throughout t…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 25 November 1878)
…ity h thomson mayor city council chambers nov 19 1878 3010 for sale a corner half acre at hillmorton lincoln road terms easy apply t pepperell hereford street 3070 or sale bhiegum posts and rails pric…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 26 November 1878)
…rom 10 to 4 for young children between 11 and 2 only 1 193 for sale a corner half-acre at hillmorton lincoln road terms 3asy apply t pepperell hereford 3treet 3070 or sale bluegum posts and rails pric…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 27 November 1878)
b tior sale a cornor half-acre afc x hillmorton lincoln road term i easy apply t pepperell hereford street 8070 for sale bluegum posts and rails pr…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 06 March 1879)
to-morrow important to all porsons in search of a good freehold building site hillmorton lincoln road tte e j t ford is instructed to sell by publio auction at mr c f barker salo boom by a…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 13 May 1879)
…at hawkins station o c n c j t fobd co twio auctioneers without reserve to olose accounts hillmorton addington me e j t foed is favoured with instruc tions from the froeholdor to sell by publio auotio…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Hillmorton 5 lately
dandelions seen — Hillmorton, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · reinderw ·
False Black Widow seen — Halswell Rd near Coppell Pl, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8025, New ZealandiNaturalist · chris47948 ·
Bristly Mallow seen — Hillmorton, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · meurkc ·
Small-flowered onion grass seen — Hillmorton, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · pauldespa ·
Chilean rhubarb seen — Hillmorton, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · meurkc ·
38 more documents came up in searches for Hillmorton's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Hillmorton with Middleton · Hoon Hay · Spreydon · Aidanfield · Addington · Riccarton, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Hillmorton?
Hillmorton is a suburb of south-western Christchurch, New Zealand. The public record holds 3,926 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.
How many people live in Hillmorton?
3,020 people at the 2023 Census, 1,014 per square kilometre across 3.0 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Hillmorton?
About 2,847 people and 1,110 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Hillmorton?
3,926 reports on record, most often graffiti & vandalism (999), roads & footpaths (728), trees & parks (713). 686 of them in the year to 10 October 2026.
How many crashes has Hillmorton had?
185 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 3 people killed, 36 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Hillmorton?
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 2011. 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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