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
| Belfast | Northwood | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 5,280 2023 | 4,460 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 4,860 indicative | 4,287 indicative |
| Census households | 1,905 | 1,695 |
| Under 15 (Census) | — | 13% |
| 65+ (Census) | — | 26% |
| Area | 10.21 km² | 6.33 km² |
| People per km² | 517 | 705 |
| Reports filed | 3,000 | 2,309 |
| Rank on the roll | 49th of 108 | 59th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 294 | 365 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2020-07-22 16 reports | 2023-02-27 10 reports |
| Crashes on record | 247 8 fatal · 51 serious | 54 1 fatal · 10 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 1 biggest M3.4 | 2 biggest M3.2 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 12.9% of the outline | TC2 18.1% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 10.8% 2 events | 0.8% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline +55% silent-file | 1% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 3% of the outline | 12% of the outline |
| The kept view | 5% of the outline +1% outstanding | 11% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 9% high-hazard · 11% managed | 6% high-hazard · 9% managed |
| The quiet lines | 56% of the outline · 2% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · 69% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 189 reaches (Kaputone Creek, Wilsons Drain) · 14% setback strips · held edge | 55 reaches (Styx River, Harts Creek) · 12% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 10% under density overlays · New Neighbourhood | 4% under density overlays · Suburban |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 420 frames filed · 2010–2013 | 587 frames filed · 2010–2014 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Northern Line | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Northern Line |
| The remembered names | 8 plaques · Belfast Cemetery | 20 plaques · Groynes, Styx Mill Conservation Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 7 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 7 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 19 parcels 12 current | 5 parcels none current |
| Made ground on file | 206 parcels 5 unvouched | 130 parcels 3 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 6 parcels 1 verified | 2 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | possible 100% of the outline | possible 90% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 2,572 trees 29 veterans · 619 remembered felled | 2,147 trees 6 veterans · 513 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Urban Fringe 26% of the outline · 27% residential | Specific Purpose (Golf Resort) 32% of the outline · 21% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 9% of the outline 9 designations · movement | 5% of the outline 5 designations · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | 2% of the outline 3 matters · section 6, infrastructure | – |
| The listed city | 6 scheduled items 2 highly significant | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 343 · Dumped Rubbish 277 · Parks 266 | Parks 318 · Overgrown Vegetation 254 · Roading/Streets 243 |
| Schools | 2 | 0 |
| Parks | 10 | 17 |
| Facilities | 2 | 0 |
| Tracks | 6 | 0 |
| Bus stops | 25 | 12 |
| Bus routes through | 4 | 2 |
| Heritage places | 7 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Belfast's page · Northwood's page
Questions, answered briefly
Belfast counts 5,280 people (2023) to Northwood's 4,460; Belfast covers 10.21 km², Northwood 6.33 km²; the record holds 3,000 reports for Belfast and 2,309 for Northwood.
Belfast, 7 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.