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 | Somerfield | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,430 2023 | 7,080 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,361 indicative | 6,813 indicative |
| Census households | 903 | 2,664 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 20% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 18% | 18% |
| Area | 0.73 km² | 2.48 km² |
| People per km² | 3,329 | 2,855 |
| Reports filed | 2,668 | 7,009 |
| Rank on the roll | 53rd of 108 | 18th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 3,655 | 2,826 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-05-18 23 reports | 2016-10-02 39 reports |
| Crashes on record | 16 0 fatal · 3 serious | 165 2 fatal · 32 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 6 biggest M3.8 | 16 biggest M4.3 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 6.4% of the outline | TC2 445.0% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 27.6% 6 events | 11.5% 4 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | 2% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | — | 2% of the outline |
| The kept view | 3% of the outline | 2% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 5% high-hazard · 17% managed | 1% high-hazard · 11% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 10 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Sibleys Drain) · 14% setback strips | 25 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Tennysons Drain) · 5% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | 31% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,091 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 2,130 frames filed · 2000–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Ōpāwaho River | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Nor'West Arc, Quarryman's Trail +1 |
| The remembered names | 6 plaques · Beckenham Park | 3 plaques · Ashgrove Reserve, Somerfield Park |
| The rules on the ground | 4 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | 6 parcels 4 current |
| Made ground on file | 24 parcels all vouched or natural | 68 parcels 15 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | 2 parcels 1 verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 90% of the outline · 1 free-face flag | medium 100% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 639 trees 3 veterans · 330 remembered felled | 1,720 trees 31 veterans · 862 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 66% of the outline · 66% residential | Residential Suburban 35% of the outline · 67% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 1% of the outline 1 designation · learning | 6% of the outline 3 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | 4 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Water Leak 397 · Graffiti 312 · Roading/Streets 261 | Graffiti 1,202 · Water Leak 791 · Dumped Rubbish 618 |
| Schools | 2 | 2 |
| Parks | 3 | 4 |
| Facilities | 0 | 2 |
| Tracks | 5 | 12 |
| Bus stops | 2 | 26 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 5 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 9 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Beckenham's page · Somerfield's page
Questions, answered briefly
Beckenham counts 2,430 people (2023) to Somerfield's 7,080; Beckenham covers 0.73 km², Somerfield 2.48 km²; the record holds 2,668 reports for Beckenham and 7,009 for Somerfield.
Somerfield, 9 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.