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Wigram, Christchurch

4,590 council reports since May 2015, the 34th busiest suburb in the city. 3,670 photographs on record. 11,410 people at the 2023 Census, 1,951 to the square kilometre across 5.8 km².

Reports, all time
4,590
In the year to 12 Oct 2026
704
Busiest in Christchurch
34th
Photographs
3,670

The record also holds about $697 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 3,670 photographs 28 old photographs 1 school 29 parks 1 civic facility 1 place of worship 5 tracks 14 names on the map 0.1% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC1 in 2011 the record drew water over 5% of the outline landscape schedules over 4% of the outline noise overlays over the whole outline setback strips over 3% of the outline 2% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays 1,386 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 26.4 km of cycleway crosses the outline 4 remembered names on this ground 4 drawn rules bind this ground 23 parcels on the dangerous-work register 469 parcels of made ground 10 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly low 34 council structures on the register 10 recreation register records 4,235 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 10% of the outline reserved 6 places on the heritage schedule 111 injury crashes 1,472 recorded victimisations 22 bus stops 115 businesses the council’s fix times 7 heritage places 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

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

$697/week middle half $650–$787

New bonds here ran at about $697 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $650 and $787, across 33 bonds lodged, up 11% on a year ago. That’s about $147 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Wigram North, Wigram West, Wigram South and Wigram East areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $735 a week · 6 new bonds

Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter; suburb figures are a bond-weighted blend of the areas. 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 0% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC1, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 1 school, 29 parks, 1 civic facility, 1 place of worship, 5 tracks and 22 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 704 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 14 August 2022, 18 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
4,794
Under 15
17%
65 and over
17%
Occupied households
1,593

About 4,794 people and 1,593 occupied private households in the “Wigram North”, “Wigram West”, “Wigram East” and “Wigram South” areas, grouped from 31 SA1 areas. Several statistical areas are combined here, so this is a grouped proxy rather than a count for one suburb boundary.

More of the 2023 Census
  • Born overseas51% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity43% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity5% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity1% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity54% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet92% of stated households
  • Households with two or more vehicles61% 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.

About the suburb

Wigram is a suburb in the southwest of Christchurch, New Zealand. The suburb lies close to the industrial estates of Sockburn and the satellite retail and residential zone of Hornby, and has undergone significant growth in recent years due to housing developments. It is seven kilometres to the west of the city centre.

the encyclopaedia’s version · Wikipedia · population: Stats NZ 2023 Census SA2 counts; the area is measured from the suburb outline

As reported 3,670 on record

31 Dix Street, WigramCanterbury34 Brusio Drive, Wigram32 Hayton Rd38 Hayton Rd11 McKendry Rd 3,670 photographs
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The suburb, back then 28 in the archive

Henry Wigram, Mayoral portrait, 1902J W H Scotland's Caudron Biplane, Wigram, Christchurch, 1914J W H Scotland's Caudron Biplane, Wigram, Christchurch, 1914Wigram Aerodrome from the air, 1928, 1920Wigram Aerodrome from the air, 1928, 1920Wigram Aerodrome from the air, 1928, 1920Wigram Aerodrome from the air, 1928, 1920[Biplane at Wigram, Christchurch]., 1920[Biplane at Wigram, Christchurch]., 1920New Zealand's growing air force: large fleet of aeroplanes now in use at the Defence Department's aerodrome at Wigram, Canterbury, 1924 28 photographs
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Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The record on Wigram

Lately the newest reports

Public Toilet, a report photo
Public ToiletCanterbury

Stolen flush valve. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this happen. Most of the out of order public toilets that have had this incident had…

Trees - General, a report photo
Trees - General3 Handley Cres

In the last three years two trees have been removed after a branch broke in the wind from this same stretch of road. One outside number 1, one between numbers…

Reports per year up 33% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Roads & footpaths 1,405
Trees & parks 1,163
Rubbish & dumping 627
Graffiti & vandalism 532
Water & drains 446
Vehicles & parking 276
Everything else 104
Animals & pests 21 Noise 16

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Wigram →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 6,634 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Wigram 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 3 months or longer. 178 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 1 December 2020.

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.

Alcohol rules on this ground

One sensitive site stands here, Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kahu, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of it.

The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.

The suburb today

Schools here 1

Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Hornby High School · Middleton Grange School · Our Lady of Victories · St Thomas of Canterbury College · and 4 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws from, not how well it teaches.

The green here 29

The first eight of 29, 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 civic shelf 1

Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.

Where the suburb worships 1

Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.

The tracks through here 5

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 14

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.1% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The 2011 grading filed 5.0% of this outline, about 29 hectares, mostly TC1. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.

The flood record drew water over 4.6% of this outline, about 27 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

23 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly vehicle refuelling, service and repair, chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, 14 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 469 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 201 hectares, mostly silt, sand, engineered fill, 35 carry fill the file can’t vouch for. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

10 parcels inside this outline carry a cleanup on the file, about 13 hectares, 2 marked verified. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance; the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 51% of this outline in the low 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 34 assets on this ground, 10 shelters, 9 bridges, 9 ramps, 4 sets of steps, sited at Kahurangi 2 Drainage Reserve, Te Kahu Park, Broken Run Reserve, Wigram Village Green. 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 10 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 3 football, 2 tennis, 2 basketball, 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 4,235 living trees inside this outline, 1 veteran among them, 4 carrying a protection, mostly Totara, Kowhai, Manna Ash. The file remembers 880 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 25% of this outline under Residential New Neighbourhood, 39% residential, the rest mostly Industrial Heavy 17%, Transport 17%. 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 reserves about 56 hectares of this outline, 10%, under 3 designations, mostly civic, movement. A designation is a claim on the ground, not a build date, the mix is read from a sampled join; the whole register is drawn at /designations.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 6 places by name in this suburb, 5 graded highly significant, Former Canterbury Aviation Company Barracks and Setting, Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 4 and Setting, Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 5 and Setting among them. And the street itself is listed, the RNZAF Station Wigram Staff Housing heritage area lies here, protected as a street rather than house by house. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 4% of this outline, about 21 hectares across 1 scheduled area. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s noise overlays cover all of this outline, about 585 hectares across 1 mapped overlay, and inside the airport’s bird-strike buffer. Shares read from a sampled join; a planning line, not a meter’s reading. The quiet lines are drawn at /noise.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 38 classified reaches, the plan calling Broken Run Reserve Drain and Broken Run Reserve Drain Branch by name, 3% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 10 m off the bank. 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 plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 2% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Medium Density. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 1,386 photographs on this ground, 2011–2015, 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, 26.4 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Little River Link. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 4 inscribed plaques, Bennington 1 Drainage Reserve, Marama Park, Upper Heathcote Esplanade Rese among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 4 drawn instruments, 2 of them dog rules, 2 bottle-store buffers; 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.

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 111 injury crashes

111 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Wigram's outline, 3 people killed, 26 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Parkhouse Road at Treffers Road, 11 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 1,472 recorded victimisations

1,472 victimisations on the Police record inside Wigram’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 77 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 38% 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 22 stops

22 Metro stops inside Wigram's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 100, route 125, route 60, route 80.

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 115 in the directory

115 premises in Wigram across 46 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

Among them, the ones the record says most about:

The whole directory →

Before any of that

On the register here

  1. Former Canterbury Aviation Company Barracks and Setting
  2. Former Mount Magdala Chapel/ St John of God Chapel and Setting26A Nash Road
  3. Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 4 and Setting95 Sioux Avenue
  4. Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 5 and Setting75 Sioux Avenue
  5. Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting69 Corsair Drive
  6. Former RNZAF Station Wigram No 1 Officers' Mess, Brevet Garden and Setting14 Henry Wigram Drive
  7. Kingsford Smith Landing Site32R Bennington Way

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Wigram, 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.

LAST- NIGHT'S MEETING. (New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, 15 December 1841)…leicester iiastliope s ellis s leicester north ld manners farnham leominster greenaway s wigram lewes harford s elphinstone s lichfield paget s anson i lincoln colonel sibthoroe collett liskeard c bu…New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CANTERBURY. (Otago Witness, 12 March 1853)…he canterbury association is about to establish in exclusive connection with messrs money wigram and sons of blackwall an emigration office and colonists rooms for the six colonies of new zealand for…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 18 March 1854)…gned to their correspondents iv london or sydney bjuakiston co a s agents of messrs money wigram and sons and c a altmeb esq of london the undersigned are ready to receive applications from the friend…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Taranaki Herald, 19 July 1862)…ssrs ransom bouverie and co philip twells esq messrs spooner attwoods and co henry loftus wigram esq grosvenor square solicitors messrs tuke arid valpy 17 lincoln inn fields john mackrell esq 34 canon…Taranaki Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Taranaki Herald, 02 August 1862)…ssrs ransom bouverie and co philip twells esq messrs spooner attwoods and co henry loftus wigram esq grosvenor square solicitors messrs tuke and valpy 17 lincoln inn fields john mackrell esq 34 canon-…Taranaki Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Taranaki Herald, 09 August 1862)…rs s ransom bouverie and co philip twells esq messrs spooner attwoods and co kenry loftus wigram esq grosvenor j square i solicitors kessrs tuke and valpy 17 lincoln inn fields john mackrell esq 34 ca…Taranaki Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Taranaki Herald, 13 September 1862)…rs ransom bouverie and co philip twells esq messrs spooner attwoods and co 1 henry loftus wigram esq grosvenor square solicitors messrs tuke and valpy 17 lincoln inn fields john mackrell esq 34 canon-…Taranaki Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LONDON. (Otago Daily Times, 19 October 1866)…anders 82 commander daniel geale 72 captain f e seymour rn 78 dr g h ryan rn 54 sir james wigram late vice-chancellor 73 professor geo ferguson lld aberdeen david dunbar sculptor dumfries dr james dun…Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LONDON. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) August 25th, 1866. (Otago Witness, 20 October 1866)…anders 82 commander daniel geale 72 captain f e seymour rn 78 dr g h ryan rn 54 sir james wigram late vice chancellor 73 professor geo ferguson ll d aberdeen david dunnar sculptor dumfries dr james du…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
PORT OF AUCKLAND. MISCELLANEOUS. (Daily Southern Cross, 07 November 1866)…d the heads entered on sunday afternoon lbid october 16 the clipper ship suffolk of money wigram and sons blackwall line of vessels w h merryinan commander wa9 towed from the railway pier sandridge ye…Daily Southern Cross · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held

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

The wire on Wigram 5 lately

lupines seen — Corsair Dr near Harvard Ave, Wigram, Christchurch 8042, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
Is this a joke? I'll not let a cartoon to dom Wigram.r/chch · ian_red_dit ·
The election fight for Wigram is taking flightThe news · NZ Herald ·
Mustards, Capers, and Allies seen — Awatea Rd near Owaka Rd, Wigram, Christchurch 8025, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
yellowcresses seen — Awatea Rd near Owaka Rd, Wigram, Christchurch 8025, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·

The whole wire →

43 more documents came up in searches for Wigram's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.

Next door

AidanfieldHornbySockburnHalswellMiddletonHillmorton

Compare Wigram with Aidanfield · Hornby · Sockburn · Halswell · Middleton · Hillmorton, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Wigram?

Wigram is a suburb in the southwest of Christchurch, New Zealand. The public record holds 4,590 council reports for it, the first filed in May 2015.

How many people live in Wigram?

11,410 people at the 2023 Census, 1,951 per square kilometre across 5.8 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Wigram?

About 4,794 people and 1,593 occupied private households (combined SA2s): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.

What gets reported in Wigram?

4,590 reports on record, most often roads & footpaths (1,405), trees & parks (1,163), rubbish & dumping (627). 704 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.

How many crashes has Wigram had?

111 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 3 people killed, 26 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

What did the earthquakes grade Wigram?

The 2011 technical categories filed 5.0% of the suburb’s outline, about 29 hectares, mostly TC1. TC1 meant standard foundations sufficed, TC2 enhanced, TC3 site-specific engineering, a verdict for the patch of ground, not a finding about any one address. The grades, drawn →

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