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
| Avonside | Shirley | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,840 2023 | 7,140 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 1,716 indicative | 6,876 indicative |
| Census households | 702 | 2,565 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 19% | 17% |
| 65+ (Census) | 13% | 19% |
| Area | 1.2 km² | 2.75 km² |
| People per km² | 1,533 | 2,596 |
| Reports filed | 4,998 | 4,694 |
| Rank on the roll | 27th of 108 | 31st of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 4,165 | 1,707 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2024-01-10 17 reports | 2022-01-04 36 reports |
| Crashes on record | 54 0 fatal · 9 serious | 248 1 fatal · 50 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 2 biggest M3.5 | 2 biggest M3.2 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 40.9% 49 ha | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | 47.5% 1 event | 2.0% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 5% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 5% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | 4% of the outline | — |
| The waiting water | 9% high-hazard · 72% managed | 0% high-hazard · 27% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 14 reaches (Brittans Drain, Avon River) · 13% setback strips | 29 reaches (Shirley Stream, No 1 Drain) · 2% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 27% under density overlays · Suburban | 35% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 569 frames filed · 2011–2016 | 1,794 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · City to Sea Pathway, Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 1 plaque · Avon Park | – |
| The rules on the ground | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 7 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 6 parcels 2 current | 2 parcels 2 current |
| Made ground on file | 35 parcels 4 unvouched | 184 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | high 60% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | medium 82% of the outline · 3 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,142 trees 120 veterans · 577 remembered felled | 1,047 trees 3 veterans · 692 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor) 53% of the outline · 35% residential | Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 19% of the outline · 51% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 5% of the outline 2 designations · learning | 4% of the outline 3 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 15% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | – |
| The usual complaints | Rubbish/Recycling 1,347 · Dumped Rubbish 1,068 · Graffiti 786 | Graffiti 1,285 · Water Leak 457 · Roading/Streets 404 |
| Schools | 0 | 2 |
| Parks | 5 | 10 |
| Facilities | 0 | 2 |
| Tracks | 4 | 9 |
| Bus stops | 2 | 38 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 8 |
| Heritage places | 2 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Avonside's page · Shirley's page
Questions, answered briefly
Avonside counts 1,840 people (2023) to Shirley's 7,140; Avonside covers 1.2 km², Shirley 2.75 km²; the record holds 4,998 reports for Avonside and 4,694 for Shirley.
Avonside, 2 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.