Hornby South, Christchurch
513 council reports since November 2015, the 87th busiest suburb in the city. 358 photographs on record.
The record also holds about $550 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 358 photographs· 3 parks· 2 tracks· 1 name on the map· 0.0% of the outline mapped liquefied· noise overlays over 83% of the outline· 188 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 8.9 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 1 drawn rule bind this ground· 30 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 59 parcels of made ground· 4 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly unlikely· 281 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 4% of the outline reserved· 2 epicentres inside the outline· 67 injury crashes· 157 recorded victimisations· 10 businesses· the council’s fix times· 30 documents· 3 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$550/week
middle half $480–$620
New bonds here ran at about $550 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter – the middle half of them between $480 and $620, across 21 bonds lodged, down 2% on a year ago. That’s in line with the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Hornby South” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 1-bedroom house, $580 a week · 9 new bonds
- 2-bedroom house, $475 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 0% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 3 parks and 2 tracks, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 103 reports in the year to 10 October 2026, the newest 23 September 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 8 May 2023, 19 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 4,554 people and 1,740 occupied private households in the “Branston” and “Hornby South” areas, grouped from 29 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas29% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity65% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity14% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity7% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity25% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet82% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles50% 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.
As reported 358 on record
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Hornby South
- Hornby South enters the written record on 20 January 1879, “Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 (Timaru Herald, 20 January 1879)”, Papers Past.
- 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, 26 November 2015, at 380.
- Its busiest day on record was 8 May 2023, 19 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Halswell Junction Road, reported on 61 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Overgrown Vegetation606 Halswell Junction Rd
Overgrown vegetation outside NPD HJR. Presents a visibility hazard to cyclists on the adjacent shared path. I have had many near misses here when cycling…
Pothole116 Branston St
This hole is a bit bigger than it looks. I could not get a close enough pic safely.
Pothole70 Columbia Avenue
Pothole near centre of road by driveway of HDPS business. Smaller potholes and surface of road is breaking up by the driveway entrance.
Facility - General Request214 Springs Road
Hole in wire fence surrounding Sparks Halswell reservoir. Looks like a car has crashed through it. Hole is opposite Wilmers road.
Hazard, vehicle5 Depot Street
bylaws with trailers parking longer than 5 days there is 2 of these on the same street are they are allowed to be there long term. do they have to have a…
Reports per year up 16% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 904 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Hornby South took 3 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs faster than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 4 months or longer. 21 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 23 April 2022.
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.
The suburb today
Schools here
Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hornby High School · Middleton Grange School · St Bernadette's School (Hornby) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School · and 3 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 3
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 tracks through here 2
- Walk and bike track through Hornby South5.1 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby South402 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 1
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.0% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
30 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, 12 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 59 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 97 hectares, mostly engineered fill, mixed fill with rubbish, 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.
4 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 57% of this outline in the "unlikely" class, 83% of the outline fell inside an assessed area. 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 register counts 281 living trees inside this outline, mostly Ribbonwood, Narrow-leaved Lacebark, Lancewood. The file remembers 30 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 57% of this outline under Industrial Heavy, the rest mostly Industrial General 14%, Transport 10%, 83% 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 15 hectares of this outline, 4%, 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 noise overlays cover 83% of this outline, about 290 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 rebuild’s cameras filed 188 photographs on this ground, 2010–2013, 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, 8.9 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Little River Link. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The rulebook binds this ground, 1 drawn instrument, 1 bottle-store buffer; 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 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.8 in 2016. 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.
- Halswell Junction Rd and Springs Rdold dump · 1970–1980
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 67 injury crashes
67 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Hornby South's outline, 6 people killed, 20 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 76 at Shands Road, 10 injury crashes.
The crime record 157 recorded victimisations
157 victimisations on the Police record inside Hornby South’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly burglary, about 9 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 46% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
Businesses here 10 in the directory
10 premises in Hornby South across 7 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:
Before any of that
Documents 30
What the archive’s sources say about Hornby South, 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 4 Advertisements Column 6 (Timaru Herald, 20 January 1879)Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Timaru Herald, 17 February 1879)Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 (Timaru Herald, 28 July 1879)Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 (Timaru Herald, 15 September 1879)Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Thames Star, 12 November 1879)Thames Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Thames Star, 15 November 1879)Thames Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
NEW SOUTH WALES. (Hawke's Bay Herald, 30 March 1880)Hawke's Bay Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH. Christchurch, January 28. (West Coast Times, 29 January 1881)West Coast Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (North Otago Times, 29 January 1881)North Otago Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Thames Star, 29 January 1881)Thames 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 Hornby South 3 lately
dandelions seen — Hornby South, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · reinderw ·
Ground Beetles seen — Hornby South, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · awmwootton ·
Taraxacum seen — Hornby South, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · reinderw ·
Next door
Compare Hornby South with Hornby · Islington · Prebbleton · Hei Hei · Wigram · Broomfield, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Hornby South?
A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, the public record holds 513 council reports for it, the first filed in November 2015.
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Hornby South?
About 4,554 people and 1,740 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Hornby South?
513 reports on record, most often roads & footpaths (218), graffiti & vandalism (99), rubbish & dumping (61). 103 of them in the year to 10 October 2026.
How many crashes has Hornby South had?
67 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 6 people killed, 20 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Hornby South?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.8 in 2016. 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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