Papanui

For Papanui Inlet, see Otago Peninsula.

Papanui
Suburb
Papanui Junction with the 99-year-old Papanui Building centred. Taken from Papanui Road with the Main North Road leading away to the right and Harewood Road leading away to the left. (2008)
Papanui Junction with the 99-year-old Papanui Building centred. Taken from Papanui Road with the Main North Road leading away to the right and Harewood Road leading away to the left. (2008)
Map
Coordinates: 43°30′S 172°37′E / 43.500°S 172.617°E / -43.500; 172.617
CountryNew Zealand
CityChristchurch
Local authorityChristchurch City Council
Electoral wardPapanui
Community boardWaipapa Papanui-Innes-Central
Area
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 • Land306 ha (756 acres)
Population
 (June 2024)[2]
 • Total
7,900
Casebrook Northcote
Bishopdale
Papanui
 Mairehau
Bryndwr Strowan St Albans
Rakawakaputu Māori village on the Canterbury Plains with the surveyors Capt. Thomas, Heaphy, White and Torlesse on the left (sketched by William Fox in 1848)
Monarch butterflies can be seen in great abundance in St James Park in late autumn and early winter
Papanui in spring 2008 showing the domain where the pre-colonisation bush once stood with Papanui High School in the background
Papanui Junction looking from Papanui Road towards the Papanui Hotel sited on the Main North Road and Jacksons Seven Oaks Butchery (with two chimneys) in the late 1870s
Papanui Junction circa 1913 looking up Main North Road, showing the Seven Oak Butchery to the right; tram tracks and overhead power wires can also be seen
Looking towards Papanui Junction (c. 1967); a Police funeral cortège leaves St Giles Church; note the Firestone Tyre sign that dominated the skyline for several decades
St Paul's Anglican Church and grave yard as seen in winter 2008
Papanui Memorial Hall and Library opened in 1923 to commemorate the fallen of World War I; it was sited at the Papanui Junction on the corner of Horner Street
Papanui War Memorial and Rose Garden on the corner Papanui Road and Horner Street, December 2008

Papanui is a major suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is situated five kilometres to the northwest of the city centre. Papanui has a population of 3,645 consisting predominantly of Pākehā (New Zealand European & Others) 86.9%, Asian 7.6%, Māori 5.3%, Pacific peoples 3.1%, Middle Eastern/Latin American/African 0.7% (2013 census).[3] The suburb is located at the junction of three busy thoroughfares; Papanui Road leading to the city, the Main North Road that leads to North Canterbury and Harewood Road that leads to Christchurch International Airport. However, as with most Christchurch suburbs, Papanui has no defined borders.

Over the last 160 years Papanui has developed into a major suburban centre and is a satellite centre for Government and City Council services. These include the central government 'Super Centre' in Winstone Avenue, Housing New Zealand in Restell Street and the Council Service Centre and Library on Langdons Road.[4][better source needed] The area has two high schools and five primary schools. There is little farm land left in the suburb with most of it having been developed into residential and commercial properties.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Aotearoa Data Explorer". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  3. ^ 2013 Census QuickStats about a place  : Papanui
  4. ^ "Papanui Library / Te Kete Wānanga o Papanui". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 1 October 2011.