Riccarton Road

1,526 reports at 258 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 778 separate days somebody filed something about it.

1,526 reports 258 addresses778 days reported on3 on the register from the air, then then / now 444 documents carry the name 135 businessesthe 19th 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 Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Riccarton.

From the air, then

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

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

Riccarton Road 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

**Then**, 1900 · Riccarton Road, Christchurch

Now: Google Street View, 2025-02

The photograph names Riccarton Road 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 ANZ). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

35 Riccarton Road, 45 reports
71 Riccarton Road, 43 reports
102 Riccarton Road, 36 reports
116 Riccarton Road, 33 reports
57 Riccarton Road, 32 reports
33 Riccarton Road, 32 reports
112 Riccarton Road, 30 reports
123 Riccarton Road, 27 reports
1 Riccarton Road, 27 reports
3/35 Riccarton Road, 26 reports
129 Riccarton Road, 25 reports
121 Riccarton Road, 23 reports
122 Riccarton Road, 22 reports
97 Riccarton Road, 21 reports
7 Riccarton Road, 21 reports
119 Riccarton Road, 21 reports
85 Riccarton Road, 20 reports
65 Riccarton Road, 19 reports
90C Riccarton Road, 18 reports
62 Riccarton Road, 18 reports
99B Riccarton Road, 17 reports
69 Riccarton Road, 17 reports
233 Riccarton Road, 17 reports
193 Riccarton Road, 17 reports
138A Riccarton Road, 16 reports
94 Riccarton Road, 15 reports
114 Riccarton Road, 14 reports
91 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
104 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
76 Riccarton Road, 12 reports
117 Riccarton Road, 12 reports
95 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
78 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
64 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
47A Riccarton Road, 11 reports
25 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
21 Riccarton Road, 11 reports
181D Riccarton Road, 11 reports
102A Riccarton Road, 11 reports
55 Riccarton Road, 10 reports
219 Riccarton Road, 10 reports
19 Riccarton Road, 10 reports
113 Riccarton Road, 10 reports
70 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
187 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
126 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
120 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
110A Riccarton Road, 9 reports
11 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
100 Riccarton Road, 9 reports
96 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
92 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
28 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
183 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
145 Riccarton Road, 8 reports
92A Riccarton Road, 7 reports
87 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
66 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
47 Riccarton Road, 7 reports
4 Riccarton Road, 7 reports

and the other 198 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 1,065 reports
Roads & footpaths, 207 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 95 reports
Water & drains, 67 reports
Everything else, 32 reports
Trees & parks, 32 reports
Vehicles & parking, 25 reports
Animals & pests, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 15 reports
2016, 21 reports
2017, 48 reports
2018, 55 reports
2019, 162 reports
2020, 53 reports
2021, 45 reports
2022, 149 reports
2023, 214 reports
2024, 280 reports
2025, 305 reports

On the register

Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road
Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road
J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road

On foot, The old road’s houses walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 444 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 08 May 1852) · Papers Past, 8 May 1852
…rs watts russell gave a ball to a numerous party of their friends the cottagers along the riccarton road must have been surprised at the number of drays spring-carts horsemen and footpassengers procee…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…gsumner master mariner day robert sumner labourer day william sumner carpenter day robert riccarton road labourer de joux gideon near the lower avon stockman denham joseph cashel street christch baker…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…lombo st christch farmer arnett edward oxford terrace christchurch carpenter ashby edward riccarton road labourer ashby joseph oxford st lyttelton tailor austin benjamin george market place christchur…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…n parsons charles governor bay farmer patrick john papanui road labourer pattison william riccarton road brickmaker 1 payton samuel london st lyttelton labourer peach conyers riccarton road horsebreak…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…durham st christch sawyer brown john thomas gloucester st christch gentleman brown thomas riccarton road labourer bruer thomas london st lyttelton baker bryan john ferry road labourer bryan thomas mit…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…lodge john brenchley farm labourer lomas richard bricks christchurch labourer long george riccarton road labourer long samuel riccarton road labourer longden joseph norwich quay lyttelton merchant luc…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…ardwick worcester st christch gafpenter killjjoseph papanui shingle splitter hill william riccarton road labourer hill william henry riccarton labourer hills george armagh st christch carpenter hodgso…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…umner road lyttelton printer varay thomas norwich quay christchurch labourer vickery john riccarton road labourer vigors charles governor bay gentleman vincent william papanui carpenter wakefield edwa…
Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…r shepperd thomas avon river carpenter short george governor bay wood cutter shreeve saul riccarton road labourer sidebottom tuam st christch gentleman silk alfred norwich quay lyttelton storekeeper s…
Page 11 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Papers Past, 14 Aug 1852
…arles oxford st lyttelton mariner garland joseph lower heathcote labourer garlick william riccarton road brickmaker gartner gustavus columho st christchurch publican gaskell thomas governor bay farmer…
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853) · Papers Past, 16 Jul 1853
…eorge boys john coavell bradley samuel ferry road lyttelton lower lincoln road ashby vill riccarton road lyttelton brenchley farm worcester street christchurch ferry road christchurch j christchurch j…
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 16 August 1854) · Papers Past, 16 Aug 1854
…ual value of 5 freeholder section 10i ferry road leaseholder rural section 86 householder riccarton road freehold christchurch district freehold ferry road and other placesy in the christchurch distri…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate, Intermediate · decile 7 · EQI 430 · roll 291

The businesses on it, 135

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

…and 123 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.

Washbourne Drain stream · 9 m away Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 98 m away Hampton Island island · 262 m away Mandeville Reserve set of steps · 10 m away unnamed ramp · 18 m away unnamed set of steps · 29 m away unnamed ramp · 36 m away unnamed set of steps · 40 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Riccarton Road in 275 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 44 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 2

2 Metro stops on Riccarton Road in Riccarton, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 100, route 120, route 130, route 140, route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise).

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.