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	Hillsborough
Population	2,430 2023	2,430 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,361 indicative	2,373 indicative
Census households	903	936
Under 15 (Census)	20%	17%
65+ (Census)	18%	18%
Area	0.73 km²	6.7 km²
People per km²	3,329	363
Reports filed	2,668	2,992
Rank on the roll	53rd of 108	50th of 108
Reports per km²	3,655	447
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2017-05-18 23 reports	2026-08-29 12 reports
Crashes on record	16 0 fatal · 3 serious	91 0 fatal · 29 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	6 biggest M3.8	52 biggest M4.9
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	0.8% 5 ha
The 2011 grade	TC3 6.4% of the outline	TC2 6.3% of the outline
Flooded on record	27.6% 6 events	11.2% 4 events
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	—	10% of the outline +63% broad overlay
The remembered ground	—	1% of the outline +13% silent-file
The wild ledger	—	1% of the outline
The kept view	3% of the outline	61% of the outline +57% outstanding
The waiting water	5% high-hazard · 17% managed	1% high-hazard · 20% managed
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	10 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Sibleys Drain) · 14% setback strips	90 reaches (Victory Drain, Popes Drain) · 15% setback strips · held edge
The allowed shape	–	–
The rebuild’s receipts	1,091 frames filed · 2010–2016	1,778 frames filed · 2009–2016
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 · Monro Playground, Heathcote Riverbank Tr South
The rules on the ground	4 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga	15 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga
On the hazard register	–	11 parcels 4 current
Made ground on file	24 parcels all vouched or natural	105 parcels 7 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	–	923 rocks 612 fell · 73 wobble easy
Cleanups on file	–	2 parcels none verified
The model’s verdict	medium 90% of the outline · 1 free-face flag	unlikely 69% of the outline · 3 free-face flags
Engineered defences	–	88 defences 6 rated poor
The canopy	639 trees 3 veterans · 330 remembered felled	983 trees 24 veterans · 432 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Residential Suburban 66% of the outline · 66% residential	Open Space Natural 52% of the outline · 17% residential
The plan’s reservations	1% of the outline 1 designation · learning	3% of the outline 2 designations · movement
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	Water Leak 395 · Roading/Streets 363 · Graffiti 252
Schools	2	1
Parks	3	11
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	5	16
Bus stops	2	11
Bus routes through	1	1
Heritage places	1	7

Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Beckenham's page · Hillsborough's page

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Beckenham and Hillsborough?

Beckenham counts 2,430 people (2023) to Hillsborough's 2,430; Beckenham covers 0.73 km², Hillsborough 6.7 km²; the record holds 2,668 reports for Beckenham and 2,992 for Hillsborough.

Which has more heritage places, Beckenham or Hillsborough?

Hillsborough, 7 on the heritage register to the other’s 1.

Where do these numbers come from?

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.

A shared pair answers without a script, the tries above render straight from the record. To pick your own suburbs, the record is still readable: every suburb has its own page under /suburb.

Questions, answered briefly

What does this page compare?

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.

Does a suburb with more reports have more problems?

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.

Where does the data come from?

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.