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
| Avondale | Waimairi Beach | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,600 2023 | 1,340 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,466 indicative | 1,293 indicative |
| Census households | 927 | 468 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 19% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 14% | 19% |
| Area | 2.15 km² | 1.25 km² |
| People per km² | 1,209 | 1,072 |
| Reports filed | 3,569 | 1,101 |
| Rank on the roll | 41st of 108 | 74th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,660 | 881 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2016-04-27 33 reports | 2018-03-21 21 reports |
| Crashes on record | 117 1 fatal · 28 serious | 3 0 fatal · 0 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 4 biggest M3.7 | 1 biggest M3.0 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 27.4% 59 ha | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | 39.6% 1 event | — |
| The sea’s reach | 9% of the outline | 17% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 8% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 8% of the outline | 12% of the outline |
| The kept view | 8% of the outline | 12% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 11% high-hazard · 84% managed | 0% high-hazard · 12% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 23 reaches (Avon River, Wainoni Drain) · 14% setback strips · held edge | · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 1% under density overlays · Suburban | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,086 frames filed · 2011–2017 | 573 frames filed · 2011–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 2 plaques · Avon Riverbank True Right, Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land | – |
| The rules on the ground | 6 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 7 parcels 2 current | 1 parcel 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 132 parcels 4 unvouched | 41 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | high 94% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | possible 85% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 855 trees 7 veterans · 414 remembered felled | 153 trees no veterans · 104 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor) 38% of the outline · 30% residential | Specific Purpose (Burwood Landfill & Resource Recovery Park) 37% of the outline · 24% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 4% of the outline 4 designations · learning, movement | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 940 · Rubbish/Recycling 839 · Roading/Streets 228 | Parks 142 · Graffiti 113 · Rubbish/Recycling 95 |
| Schools | 1 | 0 |
| Parks | 6 | 5 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 10 | 1 |
| Bus stops | 13 | 8 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Avondale's page · Waimairi Beach's page
Questions, answered briefly
Avondale counts 2,600 people (2023) to Waimairi Beach's 1,340; Avondale covers 2.15 km², Waimairi Beach 1.25 km²; the record holds 3,569 reports for Avondale and 1,101 for Waimairi Beach.
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.