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Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village

Retirement community · 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 Retirement Village

Retirement community · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

Where you stand#37of 96 retirement villages
Overall health6.2/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village in Rangiora is a boutique retirement village and care home offering independent living within a small community. The village describes itself as a comfortable place to maintain independence while enjoying friendship and on-site support. Village Coordinator Bex Abel is listed on the site. Reviews note well-kept gardens, friendly staff and a quiet, clean environment.

Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village is a boutique-style retirement village located in Rangiora. It is presented as a place for independent living within a small, community-focused setting. The site lists a Village Coordinator, Bex Abel, and identifies the location as offering care home services in addition to retirement living.

Services noted in available information include independent living options and care home provision; a review snapshot also references resthome and dementia care. The village is described by its own materials as a welcoming, comfortable place to enjoy independence alongside community company.

Customer themes from recent reviews emphasise tidy, attractive gardens and a generally quiet, clean atmosphere. Several reviews mention attentive, warm staff and management, and one report describes care that exceeded expectations for a family member. Others comment that residents enjoy living there and that visitors have been pleased enough to plan future moves when space allows.

Taken together, the village presents as a smaller, boutique retirement community in Rangiora that combines independent living with access to care services. Its local character is shaped by a compact community feel, on-site coordination and positive remarks about garden maintenance, cleanliness and staff approachability.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village shows strong basic listing health with a solid base of contact information and a verified claim. The overall health score is 4.8 out of 10, indicating room for improvement. Key findings: the listing has a claimed status, a working website link, and a phone number, while the description remains basic and photos are modest but growing.

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

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    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.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
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    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.
3.7Room to grow
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4.4 ★★★★★ (18)
Retirement community · Rangiora North East3
Open 5 days ✓
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From the business

Ballarat Retirement Village is a welcoming, boutique style village - a comfortable place to enjoy your own independence, in the friendship of a small community.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The health of Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village's Google profile is above average, with a 6.1 out of 10. The top findings show a lack of responses to reviews, and solid listing strength with a high rating confidence and strong review volume for the size of the operation.

Strengths

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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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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
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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 3 of them.
6.3Good
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4.4★★★★★18 reviews
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3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
You are #36 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village shows very low visibility on Google Maps with an overall health score of 0.5 out of 10. Key findings indicate some presence in broader maps queries but limited local presence in the borough. Opportunities focus on improving aggregate visibility and boosting local, suburb-specific rankings.

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.
0.5Room to grow
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Summerset Rangiora5.0 ★ (1) · Retirement community
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Bainswood On Victoria4.2 ★ (32) · Retirement community
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Ryman Charles Upham Retirement Village Rangiora4.4 ★ (138) · Retirement community
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Bainlea House - Rangiora Lifecare5.0 ★ (4) · Retirement community
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Map positionsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Where customers find you

The health of the business's citations and social presence is below average, with a health score of 4.2 out of 10. This indicates limited reach across local directories and social platforms, and opportunities to boost visibility by completing profiles on key networks and directories.

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-retirement-village) 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.
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    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 5 of them.
5.1Room to grow
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FacebookBupaNZBupa Ballarat Retirement Village | Facebook✓
Eldernet Providerbupa-ballarat-retirement-villageBupa Ballarat Retirement Village | Eldernet Provider✓
Village Guidebupa-ballarat-retirement-villageBupa Ballarat Retirement Village | Village Guide
Aged AdvisorBallarat-Retirement-Village-RangioraBupa Ballarat Retirement Village | Aged Advisor
Healthpointbupa-ballarat-care-homeFound 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.
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    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 Retirement Village shows a low overall on-page health score, with room to improve key technical factors on the homepage. Current strengths include a fast load time under 3 seconds, HTTPS secured resources, a clear title tag, and a compact page size under 256KB. Addressing missing meta description and title tag will likely boost visibility and click-through rates.

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

Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village shows strong overall health for website traffic, with a current health score of 8.2 out of 10. Key strengths include very high organic traffic value, top local organic rankings, and excellent local keyword coverage. Paid traffic has room to grow, but organic performance supports a solid foundation for continued growth.

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
Google search and trafficChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
You are #15 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village's published hours show focused alignment with weekday afternoon demand, notably Tuesday 2pm and Wednesday 1-3pm and Thursday 1pm, which match high local search interest. However, the village is closed during multiple weekend peak windows - Sunday midday to mid‑afternoon and Saturday 2pm - representing missed chances for visits or enquiries. There are no low‑demand open hours flagged.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
8.5Strong
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Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Rangiora North East
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The next step

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These are your top 21 opportunities, from the 75 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

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#37of 96 Christchurch retirement villages
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Christchurch retirement villagesOverall · 96 businesses
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