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
| Avonhead | McLeans Island | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 10,650 2023 | 200 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 12,264 indicative | 207 indicative |
| Census households | 4,422 | 69 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 17% | 13% |
| 65+ (Census) | 20% | 25% |
| Area | 5.16 km² | 55.54 km² |
| People per km² | 2,064 | 4 |
| Reports filed | 5,284 | 472 |
| Rank on the roll | 24th of 108 | 88th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,024 | 8 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-12-22 19 reports | 2016-06-30 15 reports |
| Crashes on record | 205 2 fatal · 50 serious | 52 0 fatal · 14 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | 2 biggest M4.3 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC1 249.6% of the outline | — |
| Flooded on record | — | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | 10% of the outline |
| The kept view | — | 30% of the outline +6% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 1% managed | 2% high-hazard |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · 43% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer | 85% of the outline · 37% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 52 reaches (Ilam Stream, Avon River) · 1% setback strips | 27 reaches (Middle Stream, Waimakariri River South Branch) · 5% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 3% under density overlays · Suburban | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,514 frames filed · 2011–2016 | – |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | – |
| The remembered names | 10 plaques · Avonhead Cemetery, Base Line Survey Monument | – |
| The rules on the ground | 6 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel none current | 3 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 135 parcels 1 unvouched | 1 parcel all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | low 91% of the outline | possible 49% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 4,771 trees 16 veterans · 2,811 remembered felled | 19 trees 2 veterans · 2 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 44% of the outline · 47% residential | Rural Waimakariri 43% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | 10% of the outline 7 designations · movement, learning | 3% of the outline 2 designations · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | 3% of the outline 5 matters · utilities | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | – |
| The usual complaints | Water Leak 584 · Dumped Rubbish 550 · Parks 491 | Dumped Rubbish 191 · Rubbish/Recycling 81 · Roading/Streets 65 |
| Schools | 3 | 0 |
| Parks | 20 | 1 |
| Facilities | 1 | 1 |
| Tracks | 2 | 6 |
| Bus stops | 42 | 2 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 2 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Avonhead's page · McLeans Island's page
Questions, answered briefly
Avonhead counts 10,650 people (2023) to McLeans Island's 200; Avonhead covers 5.16 km², McLeans Island 55.54 km²; the record holds 5,284 reports for Avonhead and 472 for McLeans Island.
McLeans Island, 2 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.