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Tuam Street

1,751 reports at 207 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 802 separate days somebody filed something about it.

1,751 reports207 addresses802 days reported on3 on the registerfrom the air, thenthen / now2,564 documents carry the name20 businessesthe 18th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

278 Tuam Street, 89 reports286 Tuam Street, 52 reports16 Tuam Street, 52 reports94 Tuam Street, 51 reports189 Tuam Street, 38 reports322 Tuam Street, 31 reports284 Tuam Street, 29 reports200 Tuam Street, 29 reports290 Tuam Street, 28 reports224 Tuam Street, 26 reports304 Tuam Street, 24 reports163 Tuam Street, 24 reports51 Tuam Street, 23 reports301 Tuam Street, 23 reports281 Tuam Street, 23 reports95 Tuam Street, 22 reports157 Tuam Street, 22 reports59 Tuam Street, 21 reports328 Tuam Street, 21 reports241 Tuam Street, 21 reports209 Tuam Street, 21 reports217 Tuam Street, 20 reports198 Tuam Street, 20 reports89 Tuam Street, 19 reports272 Tuam Street, 19 reports248 Tuam Street, 19 reports83 Tuam Street, 18 reports71 Tuam Street, 18 reports370 Tuam Street, 18 reports339 Tuam Street, 18 reports298 Tuam Street, 18 reports285 Tuam Street, 18 reports228 Tuam Street, 18 reports72 Tuam Street, 17 reports289 Tuam Street, 17 reports213 Tuam Street, 17 reports179A Tuam Street, 17 reports175 Tuam Street, 17 reports161 Tuam Street, 17 reports85 Tuam Street, 16 reports32 Tuam Street, 16 reports218 Tuam Street, 16 reports50 Tuam Street, 15 reports49 Tuam Street, 15 reports221 Tuam Street, 15 reports77 Tuam Street, 14 reports311 Tuam Street, 14 reports194 Tuam Street, 14 reports128 Tuam Street, 14 reports98 Tuam Street, 13 reports277E Tuam Street, 13 reports232 Tuam Street, 13 reports166 Tuam Street, 13 reports118 Tuam Street, 13 reports264 Tuam Street, 12 reports213b Tuam Street, 12 reports321 Tuam Street, 11 reports214 Tuam Street, 11 reports68 Tuam Street, 10 reports31 Tuam Street, 10 reports2R Tuam Street, 10 reports229 Tuam Street, 10 reports210 Tuam Street, 10 reports1R Tuam Street, 10 reports162 Tuam Street, 10 reports48 Tuam Street, 9 reports230 Tuam Street, 9 reports142 Tuam Street, 9 reports28 Tuam Street, 8 reports264/266 Tuam Street, 8 reports173 Tuam Street, 8 reports120 Tuam Street, 8 reports70 Tuam Street, 7 reports360 Tuam Street, 7 reports350 Tuam Street, 7 reports35 Tuam Street, 7 reports348 Tuam Street, 7 reports262 Tuam Street, 7 reports226 Tuam Street, 7 reports164 Tuam Street, 7 reports143 Tuam Street, 7 reports132 Tuam Street, 7 reports116 Tuam Street, 7 reports340 Tuam Street, 6 reports335 Tuam Street, 6 reports33 Tuam Street, 6 reports318 Tuam Street, 6 reports314 Tuam Street, 6 reports283 Tuam Street, 6 reports264-266 Tuam Street, 6 reports26 Tuam Street, 6 reports1 Tuam Street, 6 reports287 Tuam Street, 5 reports236 Tuam Street, 5 reports201 Tuam Street, 5 reports178 Tuam Street, 5 reports150 Tuam Street, 5 reports111 Tuam Street, 5 reports110 Tuam Street, 5 reports40 Tuam Street, 4 reports2–26 Tuam Street, 4 reports293 Tuam Street, 4 reports274 Tuam Street, 4 reports266 Tuam Street, 4 reports25 Tuam Street, 4 reports186 Tuam Street, 4 reports179 Tuam Street, 4 reports170 Tuam Street, 4 reports144 Tuam Street, 4 reports139E Tuam Street, 4 reports139 Tuam Street, 4 reports113 Tuam Street, 4 reports48A Tuam Street, 3 reports366 Tuam Street, 3 reports364 Tuam Street, 3 reports340A Tuam Street, 3 reports333 Tuam Street, 3 reports328E Tuam Street, 3 reports323 Tuam Street, 3 reports312 Tuam Street, 3 reports213-221 Tuam Street, 3 reports180 Tuam Street, 3 reports160 Tuam Street, 3 reports152 Tuam Street, 3 reports148 Tuam Street, 3 reports112 Tuam Street, 3 reports1/328 Tuam Street, 3 reports96 Tuam Street, 2 reports64 Tuam Street, 2 reports54 Tuam Street, 2 reports354 Tuam Street, 2 reports345 Tuam Street, 2 reports327 Tuam Street, 2 reports324 Tuam Street, 2 reports317 Tuam Street, 2 reports315 Tuam Street, 2 reports298A Tuam Street, 2 reports281-287 Tuam Street, 2 reports223 Tuam Street, 2 reports22 Tuam Street, 2 reports211 Tuam Street, 2 reports177 Tuam Street, 2 reports175-177 Tuam Street, 2 reports160A Tuam Street, 2 reports152-154 Tuam Street, 2 reports146 Tuam Street, 2 reports133 Tuam Street, 2 reports130 Tuam Street, 2 reports122 Tuam Street, 2 reports121 Tuam Street, 2 reports102 Tuam Street, 2 reports99 Tuam Street, 1 report96H Tuam Street, 1 report96-98 Tuam Street, 1 report94-96 Tuam Street, 1 report87 Tuam Street, 1 report81 Tuam Street, 1 report80-94 Tuam Street, 1 report71–75 Tuam Street, 1 report46 Tuam Street, 1 report38 Tuam Street, 1 report361 Tuam Street, 1 report346 Tuam Street, 1 report343 Tuam Street, 1 report341 Tuam Street, 1 report34 Tuam Street, 1 report339-345 Tuam Street, 1 report328-346 Tuam Street, 1 report320 Tuam Street, 1 report310 Tuam Street, 1 report308 Tuam Street, 1 report304-290 Tuam Street, 1 report300 Tuam Street, 1 report30 Tuam Street, 1 report3/112 Tuam Street, 1 report299 Tuam Street, 1 report297 Tuam Street, 1 report296 Tuam Street, 1 report294 Tuam Street, 1 report289-327 Tuam Street, 1 report272-274 Tuam Street, 1 report26-30 Tuam Street, 1 report253-277 Tuam Street, 1 report253-273 Tuam Street, 1 report253 Tuam Street, 1 report228–234 Tuam Street, 1 report207 Tuam Street, 1 report206 Tuam Street, 1 report199 Tuam Street, 1 report196 Tuam Street, 1 report191-201 Tuam Street, 1 report178–184 Tuam Street, 1 report177–179 Tuam Street, 1 report170–176 Tuam Street, 1 report156 Tuam Street, 1 report141 Tuam Street, 1 report140 Tuam Street, 1 report138 Tuam Street, 1 report136 Tuam Street, 1 report120-116 Tuam Street, 1 report119–171 Tuam Street, 1 report117 Tuam Street, 1 report111-113 Tuam Street, 1 report109 Tuam Street, 1 report108 Tuam Street, 1 report104 Tuam Street, 1 report100 Tuam Street, 1 reportCommercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers: registerFormer High Street Post Office and Setting: registerFormer Tuam Street Hall and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Tuam Street, 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

Tuam Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tuam Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tuam Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tuam Street 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 →

Then and now

Buildings along Tuam Street
Then, 2004 · Buildings along Tuam Street
Now: Google Street View, 2025-03

The photograph names Tuam Street in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Tony's Tyre Service). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 147 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 2,564 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 20

Premises whose address in the directory is Tuam Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 8 more whose address names it.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 64 m away Rhododendron Island island · 108 m away Te Kaharoa set of steps · 5 m away Evolution Square & Cotters Lan set of steps · 12 m away unnamed footbridge · 13 m away Te Kaharoa set of steps · 14 m away Te Kaharoa set of steps · 22 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Tuam Street in 144 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 18 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Fitzgerald Avenue & Tuam Street, 29 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 1

1 Metro stop on Tuam Street in Christchurch Central City, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 3, route 5, route 60, route 7, route 80, route 81, route 84, route 85, route 86, route 91, route 92.

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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Water Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Tuam Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tuam Street?

1,751 reports at 207 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (1,276), roads & footpaths (244), water & drains (70).

When was Tuam Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 802 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Tuam Street?

Fitzgerald Avenue and Tuam Street, 29 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

What heritage places are on Tuam Street?

Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers, Former High Street Post Office and Setting, Former Tuam Street Hall and Setting.

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