Kirkwood Avenue
144 reports at 47 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 111 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Kirkwood Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Upper Riccarton.
From the air, then
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
- 33A Kirkwood Avenue, 14 reports
- 55 Kirkwood Avenue, 10 reports
- 19 Kirkwood Avenue, 10 reports
- 43 Kirkwood Avenue, 8 reports
- 50 Kirkwood Avenue, 7 reports
- 31A Kirkwood Avenue, 7 reports
- 47 Kirkwood Avenue, 6 reports
- 60 Kirkwood Avenue, 5 reports
- 58 Kirkwood Avenue, 5 reports
- 6 Kirkwood Avenue, 4 reports
- 56A Kirkwood Avenue, 4 reports
- 53 Kirkwood Avenue, 4 reports
- 49 Kirkwood Avenue, 4 reports
- 20 Kirkwood Avenue, 4 reports
- 66 Kirkwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 64B Kirkwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 62 Kirkwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 24 Kirkwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 23 Kirkwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 12A Kirkwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 7 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 57 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 46 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 3 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 28 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 27 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 25 Kirkwood Avenue, 2 reports
- 9 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 61 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 56-50 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 55-61 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 51 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 45 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 41-51 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 4 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 38 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 35 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 33 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 26-56 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 22-18 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 22 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 17E Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 17A Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 17 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 16-10 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 15 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
- 10 Kirkwood Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 67 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 24 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 19 reports
- Water & drains, 15 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 12 reports
- Everything else, 5 reports
- Trees & parks, 5 reports
Year by year
- 2015, 2 reports
- 2017, 2 reports
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 3 reports
- 2020, 7 reports
- 2021, 16 reports
- 2022, 27 reports
- 2023, 27 reports
- 2024, 36 reports
- 2025, 9 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 6 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 January 1942)
· Papers Past,
…uesdale 7 bourtreo hall jirvati scotland m wade leith blair bambrldge pte mrs n s wade 14 kirkwood avenue riccarton m walen henry bernard olaf pte mrs l m vvalen 10 sage lane wellington m walker ernes…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 July 1944)
· Papers Past,
…eet gonville wanganui w johnstone flying officer douglas s mr t s johnstone shleldswood 6 kirkwood avenue riccarton christchurch f kennedy flight lieutenant george m mrs si v kennedy 53 sackvllle stre…
- RESCUED NEW ZEALAND TROOPS (Evening Post, 19 May 1945)
· Papers Past,
…ings f waddington eric l ptc mr g waddington melhven f wade leith b 8 ptc mrs n s wade 14 kirkwood avenue riccarton christchurcli m wahapango lvoro pte mr k wahapango paroa fj walker david iv gnr mrs…
- 52 Worcester Street
· Canterbury Stories,
…Trust at 52 Worcester Street. The stained glass windows in the tower are from a house on Kirkwood Avenue. 1975 Christchurch Star photographs…
- University playing field on Kirkwood Avenue
· Canterbury Stories,
The University of Canterbury playing field on Kirkwood Avenue. Greg O’Beirne collection…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Kirkwood Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Kirkwood Avenue in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Hazard, vehicle, 19 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Road Signage, 19 Kirkwood Ave,
- Hazard, vehicle, 19 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Accessibility, 24 Kirkwood Ave,
- Dumped Rubbish, 33A Kirkwood Avenue,
- Pavement - Damaged, 17 Kirkwood Ave,
- Dumped Rubbish, 55 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Dumped Rubbish, 17E Kirkwood Avenue,
- Hazard, vehicle, 31A Kirkwood Ave,
- Hazard, vehicle, KD7 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Trees - General, 27 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Dumped Rubbish, 23 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Hazard, vehicle, 55 Kirkwood Ave,
- Pavement - Damaged, 20 Kirkwood Avenue,
- Pavement - Damaged, 50 Kirkwood Avenue,
Questions, answered briefly
In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
144 reports at 47 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (67), graffiti & vandalism (24), roads & footpaths (19).
2015, the record covers 111 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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