Waimairi Beach, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

Rent: too few new bonds lodged here for Tenancy Services to publish a median this quarter, the last figure it released was about $725 a week, and it counts this under the “Waimairi Beach” 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 2% of it; the mapped tsunami reach covers 17% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 5 parks, 1 track and 8 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 139 reports in the year to 14 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 21 March 2018, 21 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Waimairi Beach is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is located north-east of the city. It is east of Parklands and north of North New Brighton. The word "waimairi" translates to "listless stream".

As reported 906 on record

906 photographs
on the wall →

The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

11 Oct 2026 Animal - Deceased1 Marine Pde

Dead seal ? Bird flu ? Bury remove ?

11 Oct 2026 Water LeakCanterbury

This has been leaking for a long time now, wonder how many ltrs wasted and they want to charge homeowners for excess water ??

10 Oct 2026 Facility - General RequestCanterbury

Oil spill in carpark

8 Oct 2026 Animal - General1 Torrey Pines

This unregistered red Volvo car belongs to a homeless person who is living in it , along with his cat . The vehicle is parked here 90% of the time. Neighbours…

7 Oct 2026 Dumped RubbishAston Dr

4 Oct 2026 Public Toilet8 Broadpark Road

women's public toilet - latch broken and unusable

25 Sept 2026 Playground Equipment53 Aston Dr

Damage to Soccer goal.

24 Sept 2026 Water Leak9 Aston Dr

Looks like water pipe is about to burst. Leaking under the grass causing a big bulge and water on footpath

24 Sept 2026 Water Leak9 Aston Drive

water leak grass verge mounding up . it's about to blow Actually op no 7 letterbox

22 Sept 2026 Litter9031 Marine Parade

broken bottles/ glass and cans on trail. on top of hill, next to the shelter. dangerous for dogs paws and bike tyres

21 Sept 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water24 Fishermans Rest

the kerb is broken and the drain is exposed

20 Sept 2026 Dumped RubbishCanterbury

Mattress dumped on beach

How fast the council fixes things here 1,354 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Waimairi Beach took 5 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 4 months or longer. 69 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 21 October 2021.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Schools here

Zoned for Avonside Girls' High School · Christchurch Adventist School · Emmanuel Christian School · Haeata Community Campus · Mairehau High School · Marian College · and 6 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 5

• Waimairi Beach ParkRegional · 61 ha
• Broad Park2 ha · playground, 109 pieces
• Eastwood Reserve1 ha
• Aston Reserveplayground, 27 pieces
• Sandpiper Reserve

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 tracks through here 1

• Walk and bike track through Waimairi Beach3.3 km · Christchurch · walk · bike

Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The names on this ground 1

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 2.4% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The mapped tsunami extent covers 17% of this outline, about 21 hectares. The sea’s modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s inundation line, not the evacuation zones; the share is read from a sampled join. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.

1 parcel inside this outline sits on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, 1 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 41 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 18 hectares, mostly sand, engineered fill. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 85% of this outline in the possible class. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The council’s structure register stands 7 assets on this ground, 3 boardwalks, 2 shelters, 2 sets of steps, sited at Waimairi Beach Park, Broad Park, Bottle Lake Forest. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 1 record inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 1 netball. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 153 living trees inside this outline, 1 carrying a protection, mostly Cabbage tree, Karo, Southern Magnolia. The file remembers 104 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 37% of this outline under Specific Purpose (Burwood Landfill & Resource Recovery Park), 24% residential, the rest mostly Residential Suburban 24%, Open Space Natural 14%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 12% of this outline, about 15 hectares across 1 scheduled site, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 12% of this outline, about 15 hectares across 4 scheduled areas, and 44% of it sits inside the coastal environment. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

No high-hazard flood area covers this outline. The broader flood-management watch covers 12% of it, Avon River. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. 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 rebuild’s cameras filed 573 photographs on this ground, 2011–2013, wastewater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The pedal network threads this ground, 0.1 km of cycleway crosses the outline. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The rulebook binds this ground, 3 drawn instruments, 2 of them dog rules, 1 camping zone, a certified self-contained van can stay the night at City Coastal Restricted Zone; the outline sits inside the takiwā of 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 M3.0 in 2011. 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.

• Burwood MSW Landfillold dump

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.

The crash record 3 injury crashes

3 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Waimairi Beach's outline, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: Aston Drive at Ballance Street, 1 injury crash.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 149 recorded victimisations

149 victimisations on the Police record inside Waimairi Beach’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 29 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 13% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 8 stops

8 Metro stops inside Waimairi Beach's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 80.

• Aston Dr near Ballance St
• Aston Dr near Beach Rd near Aston Dr
• Aston Dr near Beach Rd near Aston Dr
• Aston Dr near Orlando Cres
• Aston Dr near Torres Pines near Aston Dr
• Aston Dr near Torres Pines near Aston Dr
• North Shore near Aston Dr
• North Shore near Aston Dr

Every route in the record →

Documents 38

What the archive’s sources say about Waimairi Beach, 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.

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

The wire on Waimairi Beach 1 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Waimairi Beach with North New Brighton · Parklands · New Brighton · Burwood · Avondale · Bottle Lake, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly