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Tai Tapu, Christchurch
56 council reports since March 2022, the 104th busiest suburb in the city. 54 photographs on record. 1,360 people at the 2023 Census, 42 to the square kilometre across 33 km².
The record also holds about $500 a week to rent· 54 photographs· 4 old photographs· 6 parks· 1 name on the map· 0.8% of the outline mapped liquefied· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 0% of the outline· 1 classified reaches cross the outline· 6 surveyed rocks· 1 council structure on the register· 1 epicentre inside the outline· 3 businesses· 13 heritage places· 40 documents· 5 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$500/week
middle half $498–$528
New bonds here ran at about $500 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $498 and $528, across 6 bonds lodged. That’s about $50 a week below the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Tai Tapu” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.
The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 1% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 6 parks, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly everything else, 22 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 28 August 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 4 November 2024, 5 reports in a single day.
About the suburb
Tai Tapu, previously known as Taitapu, is a small town adjacent to the Halswell River and nestled in the Port Hills, located 6 km east of the town of Lincoln and 18 km south west of Christchurch in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. State Highway 75 passes through the centre of the village, connecting Christchurch with Akaroa and the Banks Peninsula.
As reported 54 on record
The suburb, back then 4 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Tai Tapu
- Tai Tapu enters the written record on 22 October 1853, “JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 22 October 1853)”, Papers Past.
- “Tai Tapu” appears somewhere in 585 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: general request, 21 March 2022, at 500.
- Its busiest day on record was 4 November 2024, 5 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Christchurch-Akaroa Road, reported on 9 separate days.
Lately the newest reports
Facility - General Request2531 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd
Outside light is not working at the Kaituna hall old folks use this building and it is very dark at the door without it
General Request2010–2016 Summit Rd
Surface flooding on summit road. Need to create drainage channel to allow water to drain
General Request628–634 Tai Tapu Rd
Just an odd pot hole on Halswell River walk that someone could trip on
General Request2018 Summit Rd
Washout by Summit Road: grade roadside ditch to gully drain to culvert pipe (gravel has blocked the flow of stormwater); re-attach green plastic ‘sock’ to stub…
Dumped Rubbish2531 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd
Rubbish dumped by hall door we have an event here this weekend and this is not nice to look at
Dumped Rubbish2543 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd
Bins of rubbish been there for many years now rusted but people still add rubbish to them
Reports per year flat 2024→2025
22
3
23
2
24
16
25
16
What gets reported
Exactly what people say
The suburb today
Schools here
Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Villa Maria College · Cashmere High School (part) · and 3 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 6
- OtahunaSports ground · 122 ha
- Otahuna ReserveRegional · 121 ha
- Orongomai ReserveRegional · 54 ha
- Rhodes ParkSports ground · 29 ha
- Coopers KnobRegional · 21 ha
- Ahuriri Scenic ReserveRegional · 7 ha
Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.
The names on this ground 1
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.8% of this outline, about 25 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
The rockfall survey mapped 6 rocks inside this outline across 2 survey pins. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.
The council’s structure register stands 1 asset on this ground, 1 boardwalk, sited at Coopers Knob. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.
The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 0% of this outline, about 12 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.
The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 1 classified reach, the plan calling Halswell River by name. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.
The outline sits inside the takiwā of Rapaki Runanga and Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.6 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.
- Halswell Riverwaterway · 18.5 km
The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.
Businesses here 3 in the directory
3 premises in Tai Tapu across 3 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Tai Tapu, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
71850s
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1581890s
981900s
431910s
561920s
921930s
331940s
21950s
1960s
142000s
332010s
172020s
JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 22 October 1853)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 31 March 1855)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Evans, Charles, Papauni Laboure (Lyttelton Times, 20 February 1856)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 9 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 10 February 1858)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859)
…bbie bay 6 1492 2 2 0 500 charteris bay 7 1587 9 0 0 18 0 0 prebbleton 8 1595 1 0 0 2 0 0 tai tapu 2 1596 5 ofo 10 0 0 rangipra 10 1621 12 0 0 2 0 0 avonside 11 1656 4 0 0 8 0 0 government buildings c…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 11 June 1859)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Commercial. (Colonist, 06 December 1859)Colonist · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 09 June 1860)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 13 June 1860)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Tai Tapu 5 lately
Tupaia seen — South Island, Tai Tapu, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · sarah_richardson ·
bristly oxtongue seen — Old Tai Tapu Rd, Christchurch, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · wellsg ·
Knobbled Orbweaver seen — South Island, Tai Tapu, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · putaweta ·
House Spiders seen — South Island, Tai Tapu, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · putaweta ·
Something seen — South Island, Tai Tapu, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · marknixonacc ·
189 more documents came up in searches for Tai Tapu's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Tai Tapu with Gebbies Valley · Ataahua · Charteris Bay · Governors Bay · Te Rapaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa · Rapaki, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Tai Tapu?
Tai Tapu, previously known as Taitapu, is a small town adjacent to the Halswell River and nestled in the Port Hills, located 6 km east of the town of Lincoln and 18 km south west of Christchurch in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. The public record holds 56 council reports for it, the first filed in March 2022.
How many people live in Tai Tapu?
1,360 people at the 2023 Census, 42 per square kilometre across 33 km².
What gets reported in Tai Tapu?
56 reports on record, most often everything else (29), roads & footpaths (10), trees & parks (7). 22 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
Did earthquakes strike under Tai Tapu?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.6 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →
What stood in Tai Tapu before?
The heritage register holds 13 places here, Ellesmere Arms, Former Governors Bay Lock-up among them. The written record goes back further: the shelf, for the name →
Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →