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Spreydon, Christchurch

7,313 council reports since June 2015, the 16th busiest suburb in the city. 5,869 photographs on record. 9,970 people at the 2023 Census, 3,768 to the square kilometre across 2.6 km².

Reports, all time
7,313
In the year to 13 Oct 2026
1,060
Busiest in Christchurch
16th
Photographs
5,869

The record also holds about $555 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 5,869 photographs 11 old photographs 3 schools 9 parks 1 civic facility 2 places of worship 17 tracks 4 names on the map 41.7% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC3 in 2011 the record drew water over 11% of the outline the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 1% of the outline ecological sites over 1% of the outline landscape schedules over 1% of the outline noise overlays over 1% of the outline setback strips over 1% of the outline 67% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays 1,463 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 10.0 km of cycleway crosses the outline 5 remembered names on this ground 11 drawn rules bind this ground 9 parcels on the dangerous-work register 52 parcels of made ground 3 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly medium 6 council structures on the register 24 recreation register records 1,452 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 2% of the outline reserved 2 places on the heritage schedule 5 epicentres inside the outline 181 injury crashes 3,579 recorded victimisations 36 bus stops 90 businesses the council’s fix times 4 heritage places 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

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

$555/week middle half $530–$599

New bonds here ran at about $555 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $530 and $599, across 189 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 Spreydon West, Spreydon North and Spreydon South areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $562 a week · 108 new bonds
  • 2-bedroom house, $552 a week · 27 new bonds
  • 3-bedroom house, $597 a week · 21 new bonds
  • 1-bedroom flat/unit, $116 a week · 6 new bonds
  • 2-bedroom apartment, $543 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 42% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC3, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 3 schools, 9 parks, 1 civic facility, 2 places of worship, 17 tracks and 36 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly rubbish & dumping, 1,060 reports in the year to 13 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 15 January 2018, 43 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
9,279
Under 15
16%
65 and over
13%
Occupied households
3,834

About 9,279 people and 3,834 occupied private households in the “Spreydon West”, “Spreydon South” and “Spreydon North” areas, grouped from 63 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 overseas25% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity79% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity12% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity3% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity14% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet83% of stated households
  • Households with two or more vehicles45% 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

Spreydon is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south-south-west of Cathedral Square. The most central street through Spreydon is Barrington Street. Spreydon is flanked by the suburbs Hoon Hay, Sydenham, and Lower Cashmere. State Highway 76 marks the northern boundary of the suburb, including the eastern end of the Christchurch Southern Motorway.

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

As reported 5,869 on record

8 Cheviot St29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon43 Bolton Avenue, Spreydon16 Hammond Place, Spreydon78 Domain Terrace, Spreydon303 Selwyn St 5,869 photographs
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The suburb, back then 11 in the archive

Spreydon and Heathcote drainage, 1874Corporal L. S. Woods, of Spreydon, Christchurch, 1919Lance Corporal W. H. Watson, of Spreydon, Christchurch, 1919Halswell Memorial Gates being built by W. Winsor, builder, of Spreydon, 1923, 1920Halswell Memorial Gates under construction by W. Winsor, builder, of Spreydon, 1923, 1920Looking across Beckenham and Spreydon from the Sanatorium, 1921Valuable Car Destroyed By Fire At Spreydon, Christchurch, 1926Spreydon Public Library, 1940s, 1941Spreydon, Christchurch, 1957Spreydon, Christchurch, 1974 11 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 Spreydon

Lately the newest reports

Hazard, vehicle, a report photo
Hazard, vehicle8 Cheviot St

Just saw a normal sized car squeezing down this street. Any larger parked car or moving car would not have made it. These cars are parked legally and it’s a…

Reports per year down 7% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Rubbish & dumping 1,698
Water & drains 1,552
Roads & footpaths 1,335
Graffiti & vandalism 1,335
Trees & parks 884
Vehicles & parking 300
Everything else 144
Animals & pests 38 Noise 27

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Spreydon →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 12,262 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Spreydon took 3 days to resolve, about the city-wide median (3 days). The slowest tenth waited 7 weeks or longer. 244 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 17 December 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

2 sensitive sites stand here, Christchurch South Karamata Intermediate School, Te Ara Koropiko West Spreydon 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 3

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Middleton Grange School · Sacred Heart School (Christchurch) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School · 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 9

The first eight of 9, 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 civic shelf 1

Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.

Where the suburb worships 2

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 17

The first eight of 17, 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 4

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 41.7% of this outline, about 110 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 7.8% of this outline, about 21 hectares, mostly TC3, with TC3 19 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 10.8% of this outline, about 29 hectares, across 5 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

9 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, 5 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 52 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 12 hectares, mostly topsoil, silt, mixed fill with rubbish, 4 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.

3 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 86% of this outline in the medium class, and 1 assessed area 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 council’s structure register stands 6 assets on this ground, 2 ramps, 2 shelters, 1 viewing platform, 1 boardwalk, sited at Spreydon Domain, Barrington Park, Selwyn 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 recreation register keeps 24 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 6 football, 4 tennis, 4 cricket, 4 softball. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 1,452 living trees inside this outline, 57 veterans among them, 9 carrying a protection, mostly Kowhai, Manna Ash, Ribbonwood. The file remembers 581 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 67% of this outline under Medium density residential zone, 73% residential, the rest mostly Transport 17%, Residential Suburban 6%. 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 6 hectares of this outline, 2%, under 2 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 heritage schedule protects 2 places by name in this suburb, Barrington Park Gates, Spreydon Hall. 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 1% of this outline 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 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 noise overlays cover 1% of this outline 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, 12 classified reaches, the plan calling Wilderness Drain and Heathcote / Opawaho River by name, 1% 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, 67% 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 1,463 photographs on this ground, 2001–2017, 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, 10.0 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 0.5 km of it separated from the traffic, Little River Link, 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, 5 inscribed plaques, Barrington Park, Spreydon Domain 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, 2 alcohol bans, 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 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.4 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 181 injury crashes

181 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Spreydon's outline, 1 person killed, 41 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Barrington Street at Stourbridge Street, 8 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 3,579 recorded victimisations

3,579 victimisations on the Police record inside Spreydon’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 96 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 suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 36 stops

36 Metro stops inside Spreydon's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 120, route 60, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise), route 44.

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 90 in the directory

90 premises in Spreydon across 39 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

On the register here

  1. Barrington Park Gates
  2. Somerfield Hall47 Studholme Street
  3. Spreydon Hall71 Domain Terrace
  4. Sydenham Cemetery

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Spreydon, 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.

ROAD BOARDS AND MUNICIPALITIES. (Timaru Herald, 02 February 1867)…50 oxford 6 5 9 pigeon��ay 19a port levy 100 port victoria 1045 rakaia 225 riccarton 950 spreydon j springs douu tempteton 925 r timaru waimate 3900 waipara 110 total 46560…Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ROAD BOARDS AND MUNICIPALATIES. (Timaru Herald, 08 April 1868)…on 2219 218 0 0 0 riccarton 40 0 0 0 0 0 templeton 805 1 0 0 0 0 heathcoto 1280 232 0 0 0 spreydon 105 034 0 0 0 halswell 471 2 0 0 0 0 lincoln 2097 1 8 0 0 0 springs 7009 034 0 0 0 port victoria 309…Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 31 October 1868)…y order of the committee chas allison 1533 secretary to farmers cattle dealers and others spreydon fair 1 i lincoln road 3j miles from christchurch a t the request of several farmers in and lx around…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 24 November 1868)…the remainder of the report was approved the mayor called attention to the action of the spreydon road board in draining a portion of their district into the city drain at the end of montreal street…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 01 December 1868)…in the papers the mayor said he had conferred with dr foster respecting the action of the spreydon road board in draining water into the city drains but that nothing decisive had accrued dr foster had…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 08 December 1868)…aiapoi not interested in the proposed change but another day would do as well as saturday spreydon 13 for change to thursday 10 for saturday heathcote desirous of change no day mentioned avon desirous…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Local and General. (Star, 06 April 1869)…he same office forwarding copy of a memorial which had been received from residentsin-the spreydon district west of colombo street south praying to be included in the heathcote road board district the…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Magisterial. (Star, 04 May 1869)…church john george ruddenklau junction of hizh and colombo streets christcburch wm styche spreydon william randall smith corner of madras aod t asaph streets frank hlee cashel street wilhelm schmidt c…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Local and General. (Star, 13 August 1869)…e christchurch little river courtenay avon heathcote templeton springs riccarton halswell spreydon and lincoln the contracts already let by the board are embankment near mleanfs say 400 raising govern…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 26 October 1869)…to be carried out i the following correspondence was read and considered letter from the spreydon road board intimating that they were willing to contribute 10s per chain towards the formation of the…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 Spreydon 5 lately

Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote Community Board — 4 pm, 15 Oct 2026The council · Christchurch City Council ·
Nimbopsocus australis seen — Spreydon, Christchurch 8024, New ZealandiNaturalist · hitchjunkie ·
OPINION: Sprawling from Redwood to Opawa and Spreydon to Phillipstown, boundary changes have reshaped the electorate of Christchurch Central. It is anything but central now, rather a cross-shaped…The Press · Mike Yardley ·
Common European Greenbottle Fly seen — Spreydon, Christchurch 8024, New ZealandiNaturalist · scaber ·
Gday folks, I may be moving to Chch next year and I had some suburbs in mind on where to live so I was hoping to get some feedback and suggestions. Even though Chch is easy to get around and…r/chch · Ok-Bar601 ·

The whole wire →

84 more documents came up in searches for Spreydon's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.

Next door

AddingtonSomerfieldHoon HayHillmortonSydenhamMiddleton

Compare Spreydon with Addington · Somerfield · Hoon Hay · Hillmorton · Sydenham · Middleton, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Spreydon?

Spreydon is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south-south-west of Cathedral Square. The public record holds 7,313 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.

How many people live in Spreydon?

9,970 people at the 2023 Census, 3,768 per square kilometre across 2.6 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Spreydon?

About 9,279 people and 3,834 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 Spreydon?

7,313 reports on record, most often rubbish & dumping (1,698), water & drains (1,552), roads & footpaths (1,335). 1,060 of them in the year to 13 October 2026.

How many crashes has Spreydon had?

181 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 1 person killed, 41 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

Did earthquakes strike under Spreydon?

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M4.4 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 →