Riccarton Avenue

734 reports at 34 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 579 separate days somebody filed something about it.

734 reports 34 addresses579 days reported on2 on the register from the air, then 39 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 34th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Riccarton Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

From the air, then

Riccarton Avenue from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Riccarton Avenue from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Riccarton Avenue from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 223 reports
Trees & parks, 183 reports
Roads & footpaths, 132 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 51 reports
Vehicles & parking, 48 reports
Water & drains, 42 reports
Everything else, 37 reports
Animals & pests, 18 reports

Year by year

2015, 12 reports
2016, 28 reports
2017, 27 reports
2018, 34 reports
2019, 30 reports
2020, 14 reports
2021, 32 reports
2022, 77 reports
2023, 129 reports
2024, 137 reports
2025, 127 reports

On the register

Cuningham House and Setting, 7 Riccarton Avenue
Nurses' Memorial Chapel and Setting, 2J Riccarton Avenue

On foot, The school’s own register walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 39 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

Nurses' Home, Christchurch Hospital · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1904
…Maddison and built in 1894, stood on "Hospital Corner" - the corner of Oxford Terrace and Riccarton Avenue Postcard P. T. [Post & Telegraph] Series 99. 2014 Photo Hunt…
Riccarton Road, Christchurch · Te Papa Collections Online, 1 Jan 1905
Intersection of Riccarton Road, Riccarton Avenue and Deans Avenue. Taken from Riccarton Avenue and looking south towards Riccarton Road. An au…

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Riccarton Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

Christchurch Public HospitalHospital · 2 Riccarton Avenue

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Addington Brook stream · 4 m away Washbourne Creek stream · 4 m away Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 8 m away Victoria Lake lake · 19 m away Kiosk Lake lake · 34 m away Hagley Park South footbridge · 5 m away Hagley Park North road bridge · 11 m away Botanic Gardens set of steps · 18 m away unnamed ramp · 21 m away Hagley Park South footbridge · 24 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Riccarton Avenue in 62 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 17 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Deans Avenue & Riccarton Avenue, 81 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 1

1 Metro stop on Riccarton Avenue in Christchurch Central City, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86.

Riccarton Ave (Hospital)

Every route in the record →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.