Pothole1 Major Aitken Drive
recent rain destroyed the tarmac. pot holes were recently fixed, but all the detritus from the holes was not cleaned up and litter the bicycle lane. I would…
Huntsbury, Christchurch
2,566 council reports since June 2015, the 54th busiest suburb in the city. 1,942 photographs on record. 2,630 people at the 2023 Census, 1,610 to the square kilometre across 1.6 km².
The record also holds about $550 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 1,942 photographs· 1 old photograph· 15 parks· 5 tracks· 2 names on the map· 1.8% of the outline mapped liquefied· the record drew water over 1% of the outline· slope-hazard bands cover 3% of the outline· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 1% of the outline· ecological sites over 1% of the outline· landscape schedules over 17% of the outline· setback strips over 7% of the outline· 2,015 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 2.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 6 remembered names on this ground· 7 drawn rules bind this ground· 149 parcels of made ground· 145 surveyed rocks· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly unlikely· 3 engineered defences· 50 council structures on the register· 667 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 1 place on the heritage schedule· 19 epicentres inside the outline· 21 injury crashes· 385 recorded victimisations· 19 bus stops· 11 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
$550/week
middle half $520–$745
New bonds here ran at about $550 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $520 and $745, across 9 bonds lodged, down 15% on a year ago. That’s in line with the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Huntsbury” 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 2% of it; the flood record drew water over 1% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 15 parks, 5 tracks and 19 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 390 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 8 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 10 August 2022, 29 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 2,544 people and 945 occupied private households in the “Huntsbury” statistical area, grouped from 16 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas23% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity94% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity7% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity1% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity6% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet92% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles71% 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
Huntsbury is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, on the fringes of the Port Hills three kilometres south of the city centre. Huntsbury amalgamated with Christchurch City on 1 April 1941, on the same day as the New Brighton borough joined the city council.
As reported 1,942 on record
The suburb, back then 1 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 Huntsbury
- Huntsbury enters the written record on 3 January 1883, “Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 03 January 1883)”, Papers Past.
- “Huntsbury” appears somewhere in 28 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 4 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: parks, 9 June 2015, at 87–95.
- Its busiest day on record was 10 August 2022, 29 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Huntsbury Avenue, reported on 273 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Water LeakHuntsbury Ave near Vista Pl
Unsure if it's a leak on the 150ac water main on an under runner.
Damaged Street Light4 Palatine Tce
Street light has been out for at least a week, following road repairs on the street.
Pothole59 Centaurus Rd
Plenty of potholes and road degradation in the cycle lane and left hand side of the road
Reports per year down 3% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 3,786 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Huntsbury 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. 93 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 2 November 2021.
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 Cashmere High School · Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Middleton Grange School · St Martins School · St Peter's School Te Kura Haoika · and 5 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 15
- Coronation Reserve7 ha
- Huntsbury ReserveRegional · 4 ha
- Huntsbury Playgroundplayground, 8 pieces
- Centaurus Reserve No. 1
- Vista Reserve
- Kenmure Reserveplayground, 5 pieces
- Farnley Reserve
- Trecastle Reserve
The first eight of 15, 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 5
- Walk and bike track through Huntsbury1.3 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Huntsbury971 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Huntsbury905 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Huntsbury642 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Huntsbury203 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 2
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 1.8% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
The flood record drew water over 0.6% 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.
The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 3% of this outline, about 5 hectares, mass movement management area 2, rockfall management area 1, mass movement management area 3. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 89% 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.
The files record 149 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 19 hectares, mostly gravel, engineered fill, silt, 1 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 rockfall survey mapped 145 rocks inside this outline across 53 survey pins, 61 came down, 14 still wobble easy. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.
The 2019 liquefaction study put 92% of this outline in the "unlikely" class, 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 register puts 3 engineered rockfall defences inside this outline, 3 rock anchors. Nearly all are the emergency works the quake years left standing; the whole register is drawn at /defences.
The council’s structure register stands 50 assets on this ground, 36 sets of steps, 8 boardwalks, 3 bridges, 2 ramps, sited at Coronation Reserve, Huntsbury Playground, Farnley Reserve, Whaka Reserve No. 2. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 667 living trees inside this outline, 4 veterans among them, 12 carrying a protection, mostly Pine, Tarata / Lemonwood, Ribbonwood. The file remembers 211 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 60% of this outline under Residential Hills, 62% residential, the rest mostly Transport 14%, Rural Port Hills 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’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, 29 Major Aitken Drive. 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 1% 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 1% of this outline 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 17% of this outline, about 28 hectares across 2 scheduled areas. 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 2% 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 water-margin layers cross this outline, 9 classified reaches, the plan calling Heathcote / Opawaho River and Huntsbury Waterway by name, 7% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 30 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 2,015 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, 2.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline. 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, Huntsbury Playground, Farnley Reserve, Kenmure Reserve 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, 7 drawn instruments, 4 of them dog rules, 1 alcohol ban, 2 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 19 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.2 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.
- Huntsbury Reservoirreservoir
- 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 21 injury crashes
21 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Huntsbury's outline, 1 person killed, 2 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: Centaurus Road at Kowhai Terrace, 2 injury crashes.
The crime record 385 recorded victimisations
385 victimisations on the Police record inside Huntsbury’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 38 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 8% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 19 stops
19 Metro stops inside Huntsbury's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 27, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise), route 17.
- Centaurus Rd near Austin Kirk Ln near Centaurus Rd
- Centaurus Rd near Austin Kirk Ln near Centaurus Rd
- Centaurus Rd near Major Aitken Dr
- Centaurus Rd near Whaka Tce
- Centaurus Rd near Woodlau Rse
- Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury Ave near Aotea Tce near Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury Ave near Aotea Tce near Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury Ave near Major Aitken Dr
- Huntsbury Ave near Ramahana Rd near Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury Ave near Ramahana Rd near Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury near Huntsbury Ave
- Huntsbury near Huntsbury Ave
- Ramahana Rd near Aotea Tce near Ramahana Rd
- Ramahana Rd near Aotea Tce near Ramahana Rd
Businesses here 11 in the directory
11 premises in Huntsbury across 8 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
- Bottle stores2
- Doctors & clinics2
- Fast food2
- Bakeries1
- Bars & pubs1
- Dairies & convenience1
- Dance studios1
- Pharmacies1
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 Huntsbury, 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 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 03 January 1883)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Untitled (West Coast Times, 29 October 1886)West Coast Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
West Coast Times FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1887. (West Coast Times, 29 April 1887)West Coast Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHESS & DRAUGHTS. (Otago Witness, 07 September 1888)Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand ·
THE OTOGO DAILY TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1896. (Otago Daily Times, 29 May 1896)Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 09 May 1902)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 October 1902)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 28 November 1902)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
1902. DIARY OF EVENTS. (Evening Post, 31 December 1902)Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 28 January 1903)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 Huntsbury 5 lately
potato seen — Huntsbury, Huntsbury, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · wadia ·
Gisborne Cockroach seen — Huntsbury Ave near Aotea Tce, Huntsbury, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · eleanor_bissell ·
Penicillium seen — Huntsbury, Huntsbury, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · wadia ·
Taraxacum seen — Huntsbury, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · reinderw ·
Taraxacum caphocentrum seen — Huntsbury, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · reinderw ·
67 more documents came up in searches for Huntsbury's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Huntsbury with Beckenham · Saint Martins · Cashmere · Hillsborough · Opawa · Somerfield, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Huntsbury?
Huntsbury is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, on the fringes of the Port Hills three kilometres south of the city centre. The public record holds 2,566 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.
How many people live in Huntsbury?
2,630 people at the 2023 Census, 1,610 per square kilometre across 1.6 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Huntsbury?
About 2,544 people and 945 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Huntsbury?
2,566 reports on record, most often water & drains (886), roads & footpaths (618), trees & parks (492). 390 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
How many crashes has Huntsbury had?
21 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 1 person killed, 2 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Huntsbury?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 19 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M4.2 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 →
Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →