Russley, Christchurch

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 $570 a week, and it counts this under the “Russley” 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 0% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 3 parks, 1 place of worship, 3 tracks and 12 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 160 reports in the year to 14 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 11 January 2023, 15 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Russley is a suburb on the western side of Christchurch city.

As reported 850 on record

850 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 3 in the archive

3 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 shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

13 Oct 2026 Fallen TreeRussley

corner Bentley Street and fenhall street russley crab apple tree on side road fallen down onto roadway needs removing before dark. thanks

8 Oct 2026 Rubbish and Bins - General64 Manakura St

The green wheelie bin was damaged following the collection of trash this morning.

8 Oct 2026 Dumped Rubbish51 Bentley Street

Hello tyre and tree branches dumped by bus stop opposite 51 Bentley

7 Oct 2026 Water Leak28 Apsley Drive

Water coming up onto the footpath. Looks like it might be leaking under the footpath.

6 Oct 2026 Street CleaningYaldhurst Rd

The crossing points are covered in debris and likely to give cyclists a puncture. Can they be swept please?

6 Oct 2026 Pothole11 Apsley Drive

The road was resealled a couple of weeks ago, this sink age around the nanhole had been marked previous but was not leveled at the time. I suggest the…

1 Oct 2026 Pavement - Damaged50 Bentley Street

tree roots big lumps in footpath tripping hszard right by bus stop

22 Sept 2026 Pavement - Damaged40 Pinehurst Crescent

the council last year did the storm water outside our house but no one has ever come to seal it. can we please have this done. it is dangerous for kids on…

21 Sept 2026 Park - General Request1 Penwood Street

There is a large broken branch wedged high up in the gum tree. It hangs over a footpath near a primary school. If this branch falls out, it could seriously…

18 Sept 2026 Overgrown Vegetation20–24 Russley Rd

Plants need trimming. Obscured vision of oncoming traffic from uturn bay. Very dangerous.

14 Sept 2026 Damaged Road2 Springhill Street

Large lump in road

12 Sept 2026 Dumped Rubbish13 Grey Way Road

Dumped shoes in a box, a broken scooter, and some rusted dumped bicycles. It has been there for a couple of weeks.

How fast the council fixes things here 2,443 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Russley 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 3 months or longer. 63 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 31 March 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 ban zone reaches in

Riccarton Racecourse. A public drinking ban, applies from 7am to 12 midnight, Saturday of Cup Week (New Zealand Cup Day), covers about 8% of Russley.

One sensitive site stands here, Te Parito Kōwhai Russley 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.

Schools here

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · Our Lady of Victories · Riccarton High School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School · and 6 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 3

• Pinehurst Reserveplayground, 5 pieces
• Calbreath Reserveplayground, 17 pieces
• Karnak Reserve

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 1

• St Stephens Methodist Church Centrea Methodist church · 376 Yaldhurst 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 3

• Walk and bike track through Russley1.5 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Russley1.3 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Russley111 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 ground that moved

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.1% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

4 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, any land that has been subject to the migration of hazardous substances from adjacent land in sufficient quantity that it could be a risk to human health or the environment, 1 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 20 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, mostly engineered fill, gravel, silt, 3 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.

2 parcels inside this outline carry a cleanup on the file, 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 100% of this outline in the low 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 8 assets on this ground, 3 bridges, 2 boardwalks, 1 ramp, 1 shelter, sited at Manakura Park, Avonhead Park, Pinehurst 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 register counts 572 living trees inside this outline, 1 veteran among them, 1 carrying a protection, mostly Tarata / Lemonwood, Sweet Gum, Claret Ash. The file remembers 299 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 46% of this outline under Residential Suburban, 48% residential, the rest mostly Rural Urban Fringe 28%, 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 9 hectares of this outline, 7%, under 7 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 noise overlays cover all of this outline, about 130 hectares across 3 mapped overlays, 16% 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, 14 classified reaches, the plan calling Ilam Stream and Pinehurst Crescent Drain by name, 3% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 5 m off the bank. 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 415 photographs on this ground, 2011–2014, 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, 8.0 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, 3 inscribed plaques, Avonhead Park, Manakura 1 Drainage 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, 3 drawn instruments, 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 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.5 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.

The crash record 108 injury crashes

108 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Russley's outline, 7 people killed, 30 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 73 at State Highway 1S, 11 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 719 recorded victimisations

719 victimisations on the Police record inside Russley’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 167 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 26% 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 12 stops

12 Metro stops inside Russley's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 140, route 125, route 130.

• Apsley Drive
• Bentley St near Cutts Rd
• Bentley St near Delaware Cres
• Bentley St near Pinehurst Cres
• Cutts Rd near Delaware Cres
• Cutts Rd near Springhill St
• Cutts Rd near Yaldhurst Rd
• Hyde Park
• Russley near Bentley St
• Russley near Bentley St
• Russley Rd near Dinton St near Russley Rd
• Russley Rd near Dinton St near Russley Rd

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 18 in the directory

18 premises in Russley 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.

• Cafés3
• Motels2
• Restaurants2
• Architects1
• Attractions1
• B&Bs1
• Bottle stores1
• Car repair1
• Centre1
• Company1
• Dairies & convenience1
• Fast food1
• Gyms & fitness1
• Petrol stations1

Among them, the ones the record says most about:

• Passengers And Co.Restaurants
• Airport Birches MotelMotels
• ZPetrol stations

The whole directory →

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Russley, 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.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Russley 5 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Russley with Avonhead · Broomfield · Hei Hei · Yaldhurst · Sockburn · Ilam, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly