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Bupa Ballarat Care Home

Aged care · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 96 Christchurch retirement villages.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Bupa Ballarat Care Home

Aged care · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

Where you stand#33of 96 retirement villages
Overall health6.6/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Bupa Ballarat Care Home is a modern care home on the western edge of Rangiora. It provides rest home and dementia care and sits in a peaceful setting with three courtyard gardens and plenty of seating for residents and visiting family. The facility emphasises communal outdoor spaces and an on-site team led by a named general manager.

Bupa Ballarat Care Home is a modern care home located on the western edge of Rangiora. It is part of the Bupa network and is described on its site with a named general manager. The facility occupies a peaceful setting and includes three courtyard gardens with seating areas for residents and visitors.

The home lists levels of care including rest home care and dementia care. The website materials indicate a residential layout with rooms and communal areas, and the facility provides standard aged-care services typical for a retirement village setting. Information on the site highlights management and staff leadership.

Customer feedback in available reviews repeatedly praises the staff and management for being caring, thoughtful and welcoming. Reviews note attentive daily care, cleanliness of the facility, good food and a community atmosphere. Several comments describe staff going above and beyond and families recounting positive experiences during end-of-life care.

Locally, Bupa Ballarat Care Home is characterised by its peaceful Rangiora location, on-site gardens and an emphasis on hands-on staff care. For people seeking rest home or dementia support in the Rangiora area, the facility is presented as a garden-orientated care home with a visible staff presence and family-friendly outdoor spaces.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Bupa Ballarat Care Home shows an average health level with room for refinement. Current strengths include a claimed listing with a visible title and essential contact details, plus an active open-for-business status and a website link. Opportunities focus on expanding the description and increasing fresh, high-quality photos to improve local standing.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
  • 3
    Category fitYour category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.4Room to grow
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4.9 ★★★★★ (7)
Aged care · Rangiora North East3
Open 7 days ✓
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From the business

Ballarat is a modern care home located in a peaceful setting on the western edge of Rangiora. Ballarat has not just one but three beautiful courtyard gardens with ample seating areas for residents and their families to sit and enjoy the sunshine.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Bupa Ballarat Care Home shows an above-average overall health score on Google reviews, with a high star rating and steady engagement, but no responses to customer reviews yet. The top strengths include a top-10% star rating, reflecting strong customer satisfaction. The main opportunity lies in improving the review response rate to boost trust and visibility.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
6.0Good
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3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps Search Performance health is 0.7 out of 10, indicating very low visibility in Google Maps for Rangiora and surrounding areas. The business shows some presence in broader maps queries, with top keywords centred on nursing homes and assisted living in Rangiora and nearby districts. The strongest opportunities are increasing the aggregate Maps score and boosting local borough visibility to capture more local searches.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.7Room to grow
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1Seen in 6 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Holmwood - Rangiora Lifecare5.0 ★ (5) · Aged care
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Bainswood On Victoria4.2 ★ (32) · Aged care
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Map positionsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Bupa Ballarat Care Home shows an above-average health score with solid social presence, highlighted by a strong Facebook profile. The main finding is the strong Facebook presence, while opportunities exist in establishing active profiles on Instagram and TikTok and ensuring consistency across directories like Yellow, Neighbourly, and TikTok Directory.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Eldernet ProviderWe can see your Eldernet Provider listing (https://eldernet.co.nz/bupa-ballarat-care-home) found via: Google search results.
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    The Community VenueWe can see your The Community Venue listing (https://thecommunity.co.nz/host-events-at-bupa-ballarat-care-home-in-rangiora) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
20 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
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FacebookBupaNZBupa Ballarat Care Home | Facebook✓
Healthpagesrest-homes-hospitals-bupa-ballarat-care-homeBupa Ballarat Care Home | Healthpages
Eldernet Providerbupa-ballarat-care-homeBupa Ballarat Care Home | Eldernet Provider✓
The Community Venuehost-events-at-bupa-ballarat-care-home-in-rangioraBupa Ballarat Care Home | The Community Venue✓
Healthpointbupa-ballarat-care-homeBupa Ballarat Care Home | Healthpoint
Aged AdvisorBallarat-Care-Home--RangioraBupa Ballarat Care Home | Aged Advisor
Village Guidebupa-ballarat-retirement-villageFound through search, not linked from anything you own
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
  • 3
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.3Good
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9.2K followers 3
Our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives.2
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Facebook pageChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Your website

Bupa Ballarat Care Home's on-page SEO health is low, revealing several gaps in technical optimisation. The site performs better on core signals like page load speed and secure content, but lacks a detected title tag, meta description, and favicon, limiting visibility and credibility in search results.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Pages linking to youMore pages link to yours than almost any business in this market - the accumulated result of years of being referred to.
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    Links to your siteMore sites link to you than almost any business in this market, a position built over years and genuinely hard for a competitor to match.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
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    Page titleThere is no headline set on your home page, so the clickable blue line in a search result falls back to your domain name or a scrap of code.
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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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1Meta description
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How people find you on Google

The website health for Bupa Ballarat Care Home is very high, reflecting strong organic performance and keyword coverage. The most notable findings are outstanding organic traffic value and local top-tier organic traffic, with solid organic SERP coverage. Paid metrics show room for improvement but are progressing steadily.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsYour paid search activity is smaller than the middle of the businesses advertising here.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth more than half the businesses here, so a real share of your enquiries cost nothing to acquire.
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    Monthly ad visitsYou are getting fewer visitors from paid search than the middle of the businesses advertising here.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
8.5Strong
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www.villageguide.co.nzRetirement Villages Waimakariri
www.rangioralifecare.co.nzRangiora Lifecare - Aged care and retirement community
www.bupa.co.nzBallarat Retirement Village | Rangiora

Parklands on Papanui Retirement Village offers 34 comfortable and stylish one, two and three bedroom apartments, and a community centre. Features. Apartments. Read more

www.eldernet.co.nzCharles Upham Retirement Village - Christchurch
2About 32,530 visits a month from search, across 2,113 searches
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Bupa Ballarat Care Home's opening hours align well with local demand for daytime visiting: 87 of 168 weekly hours match peak windows, including strong midweek afternoons (Tuesday 2pm; Wednesday 1-3pm; Thursday 1pm). There are no missed high-demand hours. Some low-demand hours are open late evenings and early Monday morning (e.g. Mon 7am, Mon 10pm, Tue 9-10pm, Fri 7pm), which may be reviewed for efficiency.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
7.7Good
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Bupa Ballarat Care Home
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Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Popular times Wednesday · Rangiora North East
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#33of 96 Christchurch retirement villages
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Christchurch retirement villagesOverall · 96 businesses
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