Suburb vs suburb
Pick two suburbs, the same record answers for both. Reports filed, crashes counted, schools, parks, bus stops and the places the register remembers, in one table with the caveats still attached.
Counts are what the public record holds, a report tally measures the stream, not the suburb’s virtue.
Or try one: the city vs Riccarton · Linwood vs Phillipstown · Akaroa vs Lyttelton
| Aidanfield | Halswell | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 4,070 2023 | 13,620 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 3,861 indicative | 10,443 indicative |
| Census households | 1,257 | 3,732 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 17% | 20% |
| 65+ (Census) | 20% | 13% |
| Area | 1.49 km² | 22.8 km² |
| People per km² | 2,732 | 597 |
| Reports filed | 1,059 | 11,540 |
| Rank on the roll | 75th of 108 | 9th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 711 | 506 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2025-02-02 5 reports | 2024-03-29 30 reports |
| Crashes on record | 14 0 fatal · 3 serious | 279 11 fatal · 69 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | 70 biggest M4.8 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 50.6% of the outline | TC2 16.7% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 1.1% 1 event | 6.3% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | 0% of the outline +1% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 3% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 5% of the outline | 2% of the outline +1% identified only |
| The kept view | 4% of the outline | — |
| The waiting water | — | 1% high-hazard · 19% managed |
| The quiet lines | 40% of the outline · bird-strike buffer | 9% of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 14 reaches (Dunbar Waterway, Heathcote / Opawaho River) · 4% setback strips · held edge | 180 reaches (Miln Drain, Nottingham Stream) · 3% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 27% under density overlays · Medium Density | 5% under density overlays · New Neighbourhood |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 376 frames filed · 2011–2012 | 1,719 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Little River Link, Quarryman's Trail |
| The remembered names | 1 plaque · Dunbars Landscape Reserve | 13 plaques · Halswell Domain, Westlake Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 16 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel none current | 10 parcels 5 current |
| Made ground on file | 129 parcels 1 unvouched | 735 parcels 4 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel none verified | 5 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 68% of the outline | possible 37% of the outline · 3 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 2,240 trees 5 veterans · 288 remembered felled | 9,222 trees 153 veterans · 1,596 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 35% of the outline · 60% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 20% of the outline · 36% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 10% of the outline 4 designations · learning, movement | 3% of the outline 4 designations · movement, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 8% of the outline 2 matters · heritage | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item 1 highly significant | 5 scheduled items 3 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Parks 169 · Roading/Streets 148 · Overgrown Vegetation 95 | Roading/Streets 1,112 · Graffiti 1,069 · Parks 1,059 |
| Schools | 1 | 5 |
| Parks | 25 | 40 |
| Facilities | 1 | 2 |
| Tracks | 0 | 14 |
| Bus stops | 4 | 70 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 6 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 8 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Aidanfield's page · Halswell's page
Questions, answered briefly
Aidanfield counts 4,070 people (2023) to Halswell's 13,620; Aidanfield covers 1.49 km², Halswell 22.8 km²; the record holds 1,059 reports for Aidanfield and 11,540 for Halswell.
Halswell, 8 on the heritage register to the other’s 1.
The same public record for both, council reports, the crash register, the heritage schedule, Stats NZ’s counts. The stream counts reports, not virtue; the caveats are each suburb’s own.
Questions, answered briefly
Two suburbs' public records side by side: reports filed, crashes counted, schools, parks, bus stops, heritage places, population and density. Every number is the same dataset the suburb pages use.
Not necessarily. The record counts what people chose to report, population, awareness and reporting habits all move the number. Read it as the suburb’s report stream, not a complaint league table.
The same public sources as everywhere else on the site: council reports via Snap Send Solve, NZTA’s Crash Analysis System, the council’s parks and facilities layers, Metro’s stop data, the Heritage New Zealand register, and census figures via Wikipedia’s suburb summaries.