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 | Upper Riccarton | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 10,650 2023 | 8,190 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 12,264 indicative | 1,521 indicative |
| Census households | 4,422 | 480 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 17% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 20% | — |
| Area | 5.16 km² | 2.37 km² |
| People per km² | 2,064 | 3,456 |
| Reports filed | 5,284 | 8,815 |
| Rank on the roll | 24th of 108 | 14th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,024 | 3,719 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-12-22 19 reports | 2017-10-26 41 reports |
| Crashes on record | 205 2 fatal · 50 serious | 383 2 fatal · 62 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC1 249.6% of the outline | — |
| Flooded on record | — | 1.1% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | — | 1% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 1% managed | 0% high-hazard · 15% managed |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · 43% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 52 reaches (Ilam Stream, Avon River) · 1% setback strips | 35 reaches (Ilam Drain, Avon River) · 1% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 3% under density overlays · Suburban | 58% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,514 frames filed · 2011–2016 | 1,182 frames filed · 2011–2014 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Nor'West Arc, South Express +1 |
| The remembered names | 10 plaques · Avonhead Cemetery, Base Line Survey Monument | 2 plaques · War Memorial Library/Plunket, Upper Riccarton War Memorial P |
| The rules on the ground | 6 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel none current | 12 parcels 8 current |
| Made ground on file | 135 parcels 1 unvouched | 53 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | low 91% of the outline | possible 85% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 4,771 trees 16 veterans · 2,811 remembered felled | 947 trees 8 veterans · 572 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 44% of the outline · 47% residential | Medium density residential zone 44% of the outline · 60% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 10% of the outline 7 designations · movement, learning | 8% of the outline 5 designations · learning, movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | 3% of the outline 5 matters · utilities | 4% of the outline 6 matters · utilities, heritage, residential |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | 7 scheduled items none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Water Leak 584 · Dumped Rubbish 550 · Parks 491 | Dumped Rubbish 2,765 · Graffiti 899 · Roading/Streets 661 |
| Schools | 3 | 1 |
| Parks | 20 | 7 |
| Facilities | 1 | 0 |
| Tracks | 2 | 16 |
| Bus stops | 42 | 31 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 10 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 12 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Avonhead's page · Upper Riccarton's page
Questions, answered briefly
Avonhead counts 10,650 people (2023) to Upper Riccarton's 8,190; Avonhead covers 5.16 km², Upper Riccarton 2.37 km²; the record holds 5,284 reports for Avonhead and 8,815 for Upper Riccarton.
Upper Riccarton, 12 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.