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
| Akaroa | Lyttelton | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 640 2023 | 3,220 June 2025 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 633 indicative | 3,117 indicative |
| Census households | 288 | 1,353 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 9% | 15% |
| 65+ (Census) | 40% | 17% |
| Area | 154.35 km² | 6.27 km² |
| People per km² | 4 | 514 |
| Reports filed | 1,918 | 5,530 |
| Rank on the roll | 65th of 108 | 23rd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 12 | 882 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-09-30 11 reports | 2026-01-07 72 reports |
| Crashes on record | 58 2 fatal · 22 serious | 77 2 fatal · 22 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 1 biggest M3.0 | 28 biggest M4.1 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | 1.8% 11 ha |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | 11.0% 3 events | 1.0% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | 13% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | 0% of the outline +72% broad overlay | 26% of the outline +57% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 31% of the outline +3% silent-file | 85% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 1% of the outline +1% identified only | — |
| The kept view | 71% of the outline +27% outstanding · 4 ridgelines | 42% of the outline +24% outstanding |
| The waiting water | — | — |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 336 reaches (Grehan Stream, Balguerie Stream) · 4% setback strips | 14 reaches · 4% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 0% under density overlays | 0% under density overlays |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 49 frames filed · 2011–2012 | 2,646 frames filed · 2010–2017 |
| The pedal network | – | – |
| The remembered names | 62 plaques · Garden Of Tane, Akaroa War Memorial | 20 plaques · Sumner Road Gardens, Oxford Street Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 37 drawn rules · Te Runanga o Koukourarata | 18 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel none current | 10 parcels 9 current |
| Made ground on file | 18 parcels all vouched or natural | 13 parcels 3 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | 1,023 rocks 612 fell · 48 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 2 verified | 1 parcel none verified |
| The model’s verdict | – | unlikely 1% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | 45 defences 4 rated poor |
| The canopy | 710 trees 113 veterans · 77 remembered felled | 179 trees 5 veterans · 51 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Banks Peninsula 57% of the outline | Open Space Natural 27% of the outline · 15% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | – | 4% of the outline 5 designations · movement, pipes |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 1% of the outline 1 matter · heritage |
| The listed city | 123 scheduled items 21 highly significant | 74 scheduled items 15 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Roading/Streets 364 · Water Leak 290 · Parks 177 | Graffiti 1,256 · Water Leak 651 · Roading/Streets 588 |
| Schools | 1 | 1 |
| Parks | 35 | 16 |
| Facilities | 8 | 4 |
| Tracks | 0 | 2 |
| Bus stops | — | 11 |
| Bus routes through | — | 3 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 75 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Akaroa's page · Lyttelton's page
Questions, answered briefly
Akaroa counts 640 people (2023) to Lyttelton's 3,220; Akaroa covers 154.35 km², Lyttelton 6.27 km²; the record holds 1,918 reports for Akaroa and 5,530 for Lyttelton.
Lyttelton, 75 on the heritage register to the other’s 0.
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.