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Hoon Hay, Christchurch

5,078 council reports since June 2015, the 26th busiest suburb in the city. 4,024 photographs on record. 9,480 people at the 2023 Census, 2,457 to the square kilometre across 3.9 km².

Reports, all time
5,078
In the year to 13 Oct 2026
735
Busiest in Christchurch
26th
Photographs
4,024

The record also holds about $573 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 4,024 photographs 8 old photographs 4 schools 5 parks 4 places of worship 6 tracks 3 names on the map 29.6% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC3 in 2011 the record drew water over 29% of the outline high flood hazard over 12% of the outline setback strips over 3% of the outline 11% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays 3,184 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 7.6 km of cycleway crosses the outline 1 remembered name on this ground 9 drawn rules bind this ground 3 parcels on the dangerous-work register 80 parcels of made ground the 2019 model grades this ground mostly medium 6 council structures on the register 12 recreation register records 829 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 5% of the outline reserved 18 epicentres inside the outline 112 injury crashes 1,255 recorded victimisations 33 bus stops 29 businesses the council’s fix times 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

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

$573/week middle half $518–$639

New bonds here ran at about $573 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $518 and $639, across 33 bonds lodged, down 2% on a year ago. That’s about $23 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Hoon Hay West, Hoon Hay East and Hoon Hay South areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 3-bedroom house, $643 a week · 12 new bonds
  • 2-bedroom house, $525 a week · 6 new bonds
  • 1-bedroom house, $650 a week · 6 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 30% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC3, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 4 schools, 5 parks, 4 places of worship, 6 tracks and 33 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 735 reports in the year to 13 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 25 May 2017, 26 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
8,628
Under 15
21%
65 and over
14%
Occupied households
3,090

About 8,628 people and 3,090 occupied private households in the “Hoon Hay East”, “Hoon Hay South” and “Hoon Hay West” areas, grouped from 57 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 overseas22% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity79% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity14% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity8% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity10% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet85% of stated households
  • Households with two or more vehicles56% 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

Hoon Hay is an outer suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located at the base of the Port Hills and about 5 kilometres southwest of Cathedral Square. The area was named by Captain Wickham Talbot Harvey, a captain of the British Royal 10th Hussars, who moved to the area in 1852 and named it after the farm in Hoon, Derbyshire where he grew up. Harvey only stayed in the area for four years, before a fire destroyed his property and prompted him to return to the United Kingdom. Further fires in the following years destroyed the woodland which was on the property, including several large tōtara, causing it to be converted into farmland. Remnants of this forest remain visible in the area, including

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

As reported 4,024 on record

Canterbury9 Rowley Ave286 Hoon Hay Rd152 Sparks Road, Hoon Hay8 Maryhill Avenue, Hoon Hay1 McCarthy St 4,024 photographs
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The suburb, back then 8 in the archive

Aerial photomosaic of Hoon Hay Valley Road, 1926Aerial photomosaic of Sparks Road and Hoon Hay Road, 1926Haymaking at 158 Hoon Hay Road, 1930Hoon Hay Valley (PB0610/87), 1938Hoon Hay, Christchurch, 1963Hoon Hay, Christchurch, 1963Hoon Hay. Christchurch, 1963Hoon Hay, Christchurch, 1974 8 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 Hoon Hay

Lately the newest reports

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo
Dumped Rubbish152 Sparks Road

mattress and base and old fridge left on the street, in front of white fence 152a/b Sparks Road, they are constantly leaving rubbish and unwanted items out on…

Pavement - General, a report photo
Pavement - General8 Pablo Place

As both a cyclist and walker thru the Alleyway in McBeath Ave / Pablo Place I have had a number of near misses with cyclists speeding thru from McBeath Avenue…

Reports per year down 12% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Water & drains 1,324
Graffiti & vandalism 1,059
Roads & footpaths 1,006
Rubbish & dumping 847
Trees & parks 475
Vehicles & parking 223
Everything else 91
Animals & pests 51 Noise 2

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Hoon Hay →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 9,134 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Hoon Hay took 4 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 8 weeks or longer. 156 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 22 November 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, Hoon Hay Te Kura Koaka, Our Lady of the Assumption School, Spreydon School, Te Komanawa Rowley School, Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High 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 4

Zoned for Cashmere High School · Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Middleton Grange School · Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · 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 5

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 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 6

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 3

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 29.6% of this outline, about 114 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 8.3% of this outline, about 32 hectares, mostly TC3, with TC3 29 ha · TC2 3 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 29.0% of this outline, about 112 hectares, across 4 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

3 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly vehicle refuelling, service and repair, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, 3 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 80 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 17 hectares, mostly engineered fill, mixed fill with rubbish, gravel, 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.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 75% 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 6 assets on this ground, 3 bridges, 1 ramp, 1 shelter, 1 jetty, sited at Spreydon Domain, Hoon Hay Childrens Library, Hoon Hay 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 12 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 6 rugby, 3 ki o rahi, 1 skateboard, 1 petanque. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 829 living trees inside this outline, 70 veterans among them, 16 carrying a protection, mostly Yoshino Cherry, Purple-leaf Cherry Plum, Manna Ash. The file remembers 411 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 45% of this outline under Residential Suburban, 59% residential, the rest mostly Rural Urban Fringe 18%, Transport 13%. 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 20 hectares of this outline, 5%, under 4 designations, mostly 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 flood map draws 12% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 45 hectares across 2 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 43% of it, Heathcote River. 9 ponding spots are mapped here, where the models expect water to sit. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 60 classified reaches, the plan calling Ballintines Drain and Stilwells Drain 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, 11% 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 3,184 photographs on this ground, 2000–2016, stormwater 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, 7.6 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 1.9 km of it separated from the traffic, Nor'West Arc, 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, 1 inscribed plaque, Hoon Hay 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, 9 drawn instruments, 9 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 18 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.5 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.

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 112 injury crashes

112 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Hoon Hay's outline, 2 people killed, 29 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Hoon Hay Road at Sparks Road, 8 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 1,255 recorded victimisations

1,255 victimisations on the Police record inside Hoon Hay’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 36 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 28% 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 33 stops

33 Metro stops inside Hoon Hay's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 60, route 44, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise).

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 29 in the directory

29 premises in Hoon Hay across 14 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

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Hoon Hay, 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.

ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853)…34 mandeville dis trict freeholder portion of section no 84 on the sumner road freeholder hoon hay bush sections 351 352 354 greenstreet charles haavkins griffin joseph griffiths nathaniel papanui col…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 24 December 1853)…the rakaia an excellent sheep run of 20000 acres for particulars apply to losgden le cren hoon hay persons desirous of obtaining timber firewood posts and rails or other produce of hoon hay bush are r…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 18 February 1854)…eated as trespassers if the do not communicate to me the obiect of their visit w t harvey hoon hay feb 13 1854 parties wishing to secure manuka fikewood or totara manuka and black pine posts rails c w…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 18 February 1854)…to do the house work and cook apply to mis swinbourne colonial store lyttelton wanted at hoon hay bush two pair of splitters wanted for an hotel a young man as ostler boots cl an d a female as housem…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 25 March 1854)…ng leases in allotments sections no 338 a and 338 b on the road to and within one mile of hoon hay bush apply to mr cridland christchurch on sale 1 9 ofin feet timber j-jfjyjyy 50 cords firewood shing…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 April 1854)…ng leases in allotments sections no 338 a and 338 b on the road to and within one mile of hoon hay bush apply to mr cridland chrislchurch on sale 1 o noo feet timber j-a 9 jjj 50 cords firewood shingl…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 08 April 1854)…ng leases in allotments sections no 338 a and 338 b on the road to and within one mile of hoon hay bush apply to mr cridland christchurch for sale working bullocks apply to mr chidland christchurch fo…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 08 April 1854)…thtbb lyttelton to be sold in lots of one acre and upwards some of the standing timber in hoon hay bush apply to mr cridland christchurch to be sold at kaiapoi land in lots of one acre each with front…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 15 April 1854)…ng leases in allotments sections no 338 a and 338 b on the road to and within one mile of hoon hay bush apply to mr cridland christchurch to be let or sold t ural section no 361 on the road to and wit…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 22 April 1854)…ng leases in allotments sections no 338 a and 338 b on the road to and within one mile of hoon hay bush apply to mr cridland christchurch to be let or sold tural section no 361 on the road to v and wi…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 Hoon Hay 5 lately

Onion Weed seen — Hoon Hay Rd, Christchurch, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · urewerawhio ·
Coprinellus sect. Domestici seen — Rose St near Hoon Hay Rd, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New ZealandiNaturalist · adamduchac ·
Family and Christchurch police appeal for missing Hoon Hay womanThe news · RNZ ·
Family ‘extremely worried’ after woman goes missing on morning walk in Hoon HayThe news · The Press ·
Woman missing from Hoon Hay in Christchurch found safe and wellThe news · The Press ·

The whole wire →

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Compare Hoon Hay with Hillmorton · Spreydon · Westmorland · Somerfield · Cracroft · Middleton, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Hoon Hay?

Hoon Hay is an outer suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located at the base of the Port Hills and about 5 kilometres southwest of Cathedral Square. The public record holds 5,078 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.

How many people live in Hoon Hay?

9,480 people at the 2023 Census, 2,457 per square kilometre across 3.9 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Hoon Hay?

About 8,628 people and 3,090 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 Hoon Hay?

5,078 reports on record, most often water & drains (1,324), graffiti & vandalism (1,059), roads & footpaths (1,006). 735 of them in the year to 13 October 2026.

How many crashes has Hoon Hay had?

112 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 2 people killed, 29 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

Did earthquakes strike under Hoon Hay?

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 18 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M4.5 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 →

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