Ealing is a lightly populated rural locality on the bank of the Rangitata River in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.

[1] It has a community hall, a small combined Protestant faith church and a rural fire unit based in the centre of the town.

Ealing was settled as a railway village in the 1870s whilst the Main South Line's bridge over the Rangitata River was being built.

Each year a Guy Fawkes Night fireworks display and a Christmas party in Ealing District Hall are held to foster community spirit.

Ealing is in the Ealing-Lowcliffe statistical area, which also includes Hinds, and covers 413.19 km2 (159.53 sq mi)[3] and had an estimated population of 1,910 as of June 2024,[4] with a population density of 4.623 people per km2.