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
| Beckenham | Cracroft | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,430 2023 | — |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,361 indicative | 3,540 indicative |
| Census households | 903 | 1,311 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 20% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 18% | 19% |
| Area | 0.73 km² | 2.7 km² |
| People per km² | 3,329 | — |
| Reports filed | 2,668 | 1,025 |
| Rank on the roll | 53rd of 108 | 76th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 3,655 | 380 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-05-18 23 reports | 2016-04-13 10 reports |
| Crashes on record | 16 0 fatal · 3 serious | 6 0 fatal · 0 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 6 biggest M3.8 | 77 biggest M4.3 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 6.4% of the outline | — |
| Flooded on record | 27.6% 6 events | 29.5% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | 4% of the outline +61% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | — |
| The kept view | 3% of the outline | 26% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 5% high-hazard · 17% managed | 15% high-hazard · 25% managed · 9 ponding |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 10 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Sibleys Drain) · 14% setback strips | 23 reaches (Cashmere Valley Drain, Worsleys Drain) · 10% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,091 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 382 frames filed · 2011–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Ōpāwaho River | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 6 plaques · Beckenham Park | 5 plaques · Holmcroft Reserve, Cashmere Stream Esplanade Rese |
| The rules on the ground | 4 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | – |
| Made ground on file | 24 parcels all vouched or natural | 53 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | – |
| The model’s verdict | medium 90% of the outline · 1 free-face flag | unlikely 61% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 639 trees 3 veterans · 330 remembered felled | 344 trees 12 veterans · 69 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 66% of the outline · 66% residential | Rural Port Hills 30% of the outline · 35% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 1% of the outline 1 designation · learning | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | 1 scheduled item none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Water Leak 397 · Graffiti 312 · Roading/Streets 261 | Parks 111 · Roading/Streets 110 · Water Leak 86 |
| Schools | 2 | 0 |
| Parks | 3 | 5 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 5 | 2 |
| Bus stops | 2 | — |
| Bus routes through | 1 | — |
| Heritage places | 1 | 2 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Beckenham's page · Cracroft's page
Questions, answered briefly
Beckenham covers 0.73 km², Cracroft 2.7 km²; the record holds 2,668 reports for Beckenham and 1,025 for Cracroft.
Cracroft, 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.