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 | South New Brighton | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 4,520 2023 | 3,420 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 4,290 indicative | 3,321 indicative |
| Census households | 1,443 | 1,296 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 23% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 10% | 16% |
| Area | 2.26 km² | 1.39 km² |
| People per km² | 2,000 | 2,460 |
| Reports filed | 4,008 | 2,672 |
| Rank on the roll | 38th of 108 | 52nd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,773 | 1,922 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-09-26 38 reports | 2020-07-08 28 reports |
| Crashes on record | 130 5 fatal · 20 serious | 25 3 fatal · 8 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 2 biggest M4.5 | 8 biggest M4.0 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 151.8% of the outline | TC3 1.0% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 1.9% 2 events | 28.9% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | 17% of the outline | 83% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline | 30% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 1% of the outline | 28% of the outline |
| The kept view | 1% of the outline | 49% of the outline +20% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 3% high-hazard · 39% managed | 22% high-hazard · 67% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 7 reaches (Knights Drain, Avon River) · 2% setback strips · held edge | 5 reaches (Beatty Street Drain, Pleasant Point Domain Drain) · 1% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 4% under density overlays · Suburban | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,345 frames filed · 2011–2017 | 925 frames filed · 2010–2015 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail | – |
| The remembered names | 3 plaques · Unification, Aranui Playground | 5 plaques · South Brighton Community Centr, Te Karoro Karoro Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 9 parcels 3 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 92 parcels 2 unvouched | 49 parcels 3 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel 1 verified | 3 parcels 3 verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 57% of the outline · 5 free-face flags | possible 46% of the outline · 2 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 945 trees no veterans · 683 remembered felled | 508 trees 3 veterans · 197 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 67% of the outline · 71% residential | Residential Suburban 40% of the outline · 40% 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 | 1% of the outline 3 matters · section 6 |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 971 · Dumped Rubbish 924 · Rubbish/Recycling 754 | Graffiti 364 · Dumped Rubbish 284 · Parks 281 |
| Schools | 1 | 1 |
| Parks | 9 | 4 |
| Facilities | 1 | 0 |
| Tracks | 5 | 1 |
| Bus stops | 5 | 15 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Aranui's page · South New Brighton's page
Questions, answered briefly
Aranui counts 4,520 people (2023) to South New Brighton's 3,420; Aranui covers 2.26 km², South New Brighton 1.39 km²; the record holds 4,008 reports for Aranui and 2,672 for South New Brighton.
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.