Street Cleaning855 Governors Bay Road, Lyttelton
The gutters along this whole section off road have not been cleared (possibly ever) and rubbish and debris are building up.
Rapaki, Christchurch
165 council reports since October 2015, the 98th busiest suburb in the city. 118 photographs on record.
The record also holds about $600 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 118 photographs· 2 old photographs· 2 heritage places· 40 documents· 4 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$600/week
middle half $473–$640
New bonds here ran at about $600 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $473 and $640, across 24 bonds lodged, up 9% on a year ago. That’s about $50 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Lyttelton area, which takes in this coast with its neighbours.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 1-bedroom house, $630 a week · 9 new bonds
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.
Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 8 reports in the year to 18 October 2026, the newest 12 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 22 July 2024, 4 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 3,117 people and 1,353 occupied private households in the “Lyttelton” statistical area, grouped from 19 SA1 areas. Nearby statistical areas stand in for this place, so this is a proxy rather than a count for the suburb boundary.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas27% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity92% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity12% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity2% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity3% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet86% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles56% of stated households
Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.
Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.
As reported 118 on record
The suburb, back then 2 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 Rapaki
- Rapaki enters the written record on 16 May 1855, “REPORT. (Lyttelton Times, 16 May 1855)”, Papers Past.
- “Rapaki” appears somewhere in 50 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: rubbish/recycling, 28 October 2015, at 40.
- Its busiest day on record was 22 July 2024, 4 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Governors Bay Road, reported on 64 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Roads - General445 Governors Bay Road, Lyttelton
those is a turn around used my many gov bay residents so you can access and exit your driveway safely. it is difficult to see oncoming traffic before pulling…
Trees - General524 Governors Bay Road
this dead tree sticks out onto the road forcing walkers to have to walk on the road and also gets a bit close with passing cars if there is another in the…
Trees - General522 Governors Bay Road
this one tree is learning out towards the road and the dirt around the base is washing away. two of these trees have already fallen across the road lately plus…
Fallen Tree443 Governors Bay Road
last rain storm, two wilding pines fell across the road. The stump left looks like it will fall to road in next rain storm and the other tree along further…
Street Gutters / Storm Water524 Governors Bay Road
Blocked drain alongside road. Drain needs to be cleared out.
Street Gutters / Storm Water218 Governors Bay Road
Stormwater runoff from Governors bay road (above the pensioner flats) continues to inundate private property. This has been an ongoing issue for several years…
Water Leak443 Governors Bay Road
Water coming out of road been there 5 days . constant and appears to be getting bigger
Park - General Request20 Sandy Beach Road, Lyttelton
bin over flowing and grass still not cut after my millionth SSS since jan. Grass at the back of reserve nit slip way. Also convolvulus everywhere, gardens just…
Park - General Request30 Sandy Beach Road
I've been reporting the same thing since feb, yet again they have poorly weedwacked near the ramp, churning up cabbage tree leaves which are now all over the…
Reports per year down 50% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
The suburb today
No boundary is on record for Rapaki, the joins that count inside an outline (the crash tally, the ground layers, the area figures) stay unanswered rather than guessed.
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Rapaki, 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.
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REPORT. (Lyttelton Times, 16 May 1855)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Local Intelligence. (Lyttelton Times, 13 December 1856)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 13 June 1857)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Local Intelligence. (Lyttelton Times, 01 July 1857)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 20 February 1858)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1858)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 27 November 1858)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The Lyttelton Times. (Lyttelton Times, 31 August 1859)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1859-60. (Lyttelton Times, 30 November 1859)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE (Lyttelton Times, 20 November 1861)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 Rapaki 4 lately
Something seen — Rapaki Dr, Lyttelton, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · gigacat ·
Something seen — Rapaki Rd, Christchurch, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · rata7 ·
Ngaio seen — Rapaki Rd, Christchurch, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · rata7 ·
Taupata seen — Rapaki Rd, Christchurch, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · rata7 ·
20 more documents came up in searches for Rapaki's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Rapaki with Te Rapaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa · Cass Bay · Governors Bay · Corsair Bay · Lyttelton · Heathcote Valley, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Rapaki?
A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, the public record holds 165 council reports for it, the first filed in October 2015.
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Rapaki?
About 3,117 people and 1,353 occupied private households (nearby SA1s): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Rapaki?
165 reports on record, most often water & drains (37), graffiti & vandalism (34), roads & footpaths (33). 8 of them in the year to 18 October 2026.
What stood in Rapaki before?
The heritage register holds 2 places here, Bridge/Culvert and Setting, Governors Bay Road Bridge/Culvert and Setting. The written record goes back further: the shelf, for the name →
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