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
| Aranui | New Brighton | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 4,520 2023 | 6,510 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 4,290 indicative | 3,159 indicative |
| Census households | 1,443 | 1,425 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 23% | 16% |
| 65+ (Census) | 10% | 17% |
| Area | 2.26 km² | 4.06 km² |
| People per km² | 2,000 | 1,603 |
| Reports filed | 4,008 | 16,222 |
| Rank on the roll | 38th of 108 | 5th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,773 | 3,996 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-09-26 38 reports | 2023-10-29 80 reports |
| Crashes on record | 130 5 fatal · 20 serious | 194 5 fatal · 35 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 2 biggest M4.5 | 10 biggest M3.9 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | 9.4% 38 ha |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 151.8% of the outline | TC2 44.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 1.9% 2 events | 10.4% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | 17% of the outline | 65% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline | 11% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 1% of the outline | 10% of the outline |
| The kept view | 1% of the outline | 16% of the outline +2% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 3% high-hazard · 39% managed | 14% high-hazard · 71% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 7 reaches (Knights Drain, Avon River) · 2% setback strips · held edge | 11 reaches (Rawhiti Domain Drain, Tovey Street Drain) · 5% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 4% under density overlays · Suburban | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,345 frames filed · 2011–2017 | 4,196 frames filed · 2011–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail |
| The remembered names | 3 plaques · Unification, Aranui Playground | 28 plaques · New Brighton Beach Developed, Lonsdale St And Shackleton St |
| The rules on the ground | 9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 33 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 9 parcels 3 current | 18 parcels 9 current |
| Made ground on file | 92 parcels 2 unvouched | 154 parcels 4 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel 1 verified | 7 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 57% of the outline · 5 free-face flags | possible 43% of the outline · 6 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 945 trees no veterans · 683 remembered felled | 2,022 trees 43 veterans · 1,210 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 67% of the outline · 71% residential | Residential Suburban 35% of the outline · 44% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 2% of the outline 3 designations · movement, learning | 1% of the outline 1 designation · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 7% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure | 5% of the outline 7 matters · section 6 |
| The listed city | – | 3 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 971 · Dumped Rubbish 924 · Rubbish/Recycling 754 | Graffiti 5,963 · Parks 1,186 · Rubbish/Recycling 1,110 |
| Schools | 1 | 2 |
| Parks | 9 | 8 |
| Facilities | 1 | 1 |
| Tracks | 5 | 14 |
| Bus stops | 5 | 55 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 5 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 3 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Aranui's page · New Brighton's page
Questions, answered briefly
Aranui counts 4,520 people (2023) to New Brighton's 6,510; Aranui covers 2.26 km², New Brighton 4.06 km²; the record holds 4,008 reports for Aranui and 16,222 for New Brighton.
New Brighton, 3 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.