Joy Street

235 reports at 73 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 206 separate days somebody filed something about it.

235 reports 73 addresses206 days reported onfrom the air, then 8 documents carry the namethe 296th 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 Joy Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Shirley.

From the air, then

Joy Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Joy Street from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Joy Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Joy 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 →

The addresses on it

23A Joy Street, 17 reports
21A Joy Street, 17 reports
96 Joy Street, 12 reports
33 Joy Street, 9 reports
46 Joy Street, 8 reports
44 Joy Street, 8 reports
50 Joy Street, 7 reports
48 Joy Street, 7 reports
83 Joy Street, 6 reports
67 Joy Street, 6 reports
45 Joy Street, 5 reports
43 Joy Street, 5 reports
121 Joy Street, 5 reports
94 Joy Street, 4 reports
75 Joy Street, 4 reports
68 Joy Street, 4 reports
55 Joy Street, 4 reports
40 Joy Street, 4 reports
25 Joy Street, 4 reports
123 Joy Street, 4 reports
116 Joy Street, 4 reports
115 Joy Street, 4 reports
103 Joy Street, 4 reports
71 Joy Street, 3 reports
7 Joy Street, 3 reports
56 Joy Street, 3 reports
53 Joy Street, 3 reports
5 Joy Street, 3 reports
35 Joy Street, 3 reports
111 Joy Street, 3 reports
9A Joy Street, 2 reports
98 Joy Street, 2 reports
92 Joy Street, 2 reports
88 Joy Street, 2 reports
8 Joy Street, 2 reports
74 Joy Street, 2 reports
73 Joy Street, 2 reports
62 Joy Street, 2 reports
31 Joy Street, 2 reports
30 Joy Street, 2 reports
3 Joy Street, 2 reports
23 Joy Street, 2 reports
2 Joy Street, 2 reports
14 Joy Street, 2 reports
124 Joy Street, 2 reports
122 Joy Street, 2 reports
114 Joy Street, 2 reports
110 Joy Street, 2 reports
10 Joy Street, 2 reports
9B Joy Street, 1 report
95 Joy Street, 1 report
90 Joy Street, 1 report
9 Joy Street, 1 report
89 Joy Street, 1 report
85-99 Joy Street, 1 report
79 Joy Street, 1 report
76 Joy Street, 1 report
69 Joy Street, 1 report
66 Joy Street, 1 report
63 Joy Street, 1 report

and the other 13 the record names

57 Joy Street, 1 report
29 Joy Street, 1 report
25-27 Joy Street, 1 report
21C Joy Street, 1 report
19A Joy Street, 1 report
16 Joy Street, 1 report
12 Joy Street, 1 report
11B Joy Street, 1 report
11A Joy Street, 1 report
119 Joy Street, 1 report
118 Joy Street, 1 report
102 Joy Street, 1 report
100 Joy Street, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 77 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 64 reports
Water & drains, 59 reports
Roads & footpaths, 22 reports
Animals & pests, 4 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Trees & parks, 3 reports

Year by year

2017, 1 report
2018, 9 reports
2019, 26 reports
2020, 8 reports
2021, 18 reports
2022, 52 reports
2023, 41 reports
2024, 37 reports
2025, 22 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Wairarapa Daily Times, 07 August 1916) · Papers Past, 7 Aug 1916
…but he beat tho-old reaper in jmt two hours with woods great peppermint cure jumping with joy storekeepers saythat thrifty wives are jumping with joy over their success with no washing laundry help fo…
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 09 January 1936) · Papers Past, 9 Jan 1936
…betty creed wellington who has been spending a holiday in dunedin has returned home miss joy stock hataitai is the guest of miss joyce drayton merivale christchurch miss elizabeth elworthy craigmore…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Joy Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.