The Rapidpatch AT Pothole Index — 26,863 potholes, mapped from Auckland Transport’s own data

In June 2026, Auckland Transport released its full pothole dispatch log to Rapidpatch under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA, ref CAS-1344360-H7J1V4): 26,863 pothole dispatch records covering 1 January 2024 to 3 June 2026, every contract area from Rodney to Franklin. The interactive dashboard above maps all of it — every area, the 289 busiest roads, and 30 months of seasonality. The numbers below are AT’s own, not ours.

What AT’s own data shows

• 45.7% of public pothole reports were closed “No Action Required” — 6,813 of 14,900 phone/online reports ended with no repair recorded. When AT’s own patrols find a pothole, just 1.6% end that way. AT says it does not record the reason a report is binned — it declined that part of our request under s17(e) because the information does not exist.

• Rodney: 85.9% of public reports binned. North Urban 51.4%, Central 47.9%, West 41.8%. Best in Auckland: South Urban at 27.5%.

• When AT does dispatch, it’s fast — 96.1% of completed dispatches met AT’s own response target. The gap isn’t speed; it’s what never gets dispatched at all.

• Central Auckland misses its own targets most — 85.4% on-target, with a 90th-percentile response of 3.5 days on public reports.

• At least $4.87M paid to contractors in itemised pothole claims over 29 months, up 26% year-on-year — and that’s an undercount, because one contract area’s lump-sum payments were excluded by AT.

• Pothole season is real — winter (June–September) runs at 1.77× the rest of the year. July 2025, with 2,029 dispatches, is the worst month on record.

• Auckland’s most pothole-plagued road: Wayby Valley Road, Rodney — 186 dispatches in 29 months, roughly one every 4.7 days. Upper Waiwera Rd (170), Ararimu Rd (161), Huia Rd (161) and Clevedon-Kawakawa Rd (145) round out the top five — rural Rodney and Franklin roads dominate the list.

The league table

The dashboard above ranks AT’s eight maintenance contract areas on the share of public reports binned, response-time performance against AT’s own targets, and claims spend — graded A to F. South Urban (Papakura to Howick) earns the A; Rodney’s 86% binned rate earns the F. Full methodology and caveats are published with the dashboard, including why “No Action Required” is a recorded outcome, not a proven cause: it plausibly includes duplicates and holes below AT’s intervention threshold, but AT holds no breakdown.

Why we publish this

Nobody was keeping score, so we are. Rapidpatch is an Auckland asphalt company — we fix the potholes AT doesn’t: driveways, body corporate carparks, retail centres, fleet yards and retirement villages. The data engine that powers this page is the same discipline we bring to asphalt pothole repair on private property.

If your pothole is on a public road, start with our guide on how to report a pothole in Auckland. If it’s on your own asphalt, see our pothole repair service or get a fixed-price photo quote — typically inside 10 minutes.

Journalists: first run at the dataset, embed-ready charts, or on-the-record comment from a 22-year asphalt contractor — email fix@rapidpatch.co.nz or call 027 737 2858 (Steve Parker, founder). This page refreshes with each annual LGOIMA re-request as the first entry in the Pothole Report Card series.