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
| Bottle Lake | Kainga | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,090 2023 | 480 June 2025 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 4,011 indicative | 759 indicative |
| Census households | 1,479 | 264 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 20% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 16% | 13% |
| Area | 12.44 km² | 2.88 km² |
| People per km² | 88 | 167 |
| Reports filed | 549 | 406 |
| Rank on the roll | 85th of 108 | 91st of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 44 | 141 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2024-11-07 9 reports | 2020-09-04 11 reports |
| Crashes on record | 6 0 fatal · 2 serious | 48 2 fatal · 15 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 4 biggest M3.7 | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | TC2 7.6% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 34.3% 2 events | — |
| The sea’s reach | 12% of the outline | 9% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline +1% silent-file | — |
| The wild ledger | 10% of the outline | 13% of the outline |
| The kept view | 14% of the outline | 26% of the outline +26% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 2% high-hazard · 31% managed · 14 ponding | 2% high-hazard · 37% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 12 reaches (Treleavens Drain, Styx River) · 2% setback strips · held edge | 26 reaches (Northern Plant Drain, Northern Plant Drain Branch) · 17% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 12 frames filed · 2012–2015 | 140 frames filed · 2010–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | – | 2 plaques · Riverlea Recreation Reserve, Riverlea Estates Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 1 drawn rule · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | 5 parcels 5 current |
| Made ground on file | 9 parcels all vouched or natural | 17 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | – |
| The model’s verdict | possible 94% of the outline | possible 100% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 132 trees 1 veteran · 32 remembered felled | 599 trees 58 veterans · 128 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Natural 60% of the outline | Industrial Heavy 29% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | – | 1% of the outline 1 designation · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Dumped Rubbish 141 · Rubbish/Recycling 57 · Park - General Request 47 | Dumped Rubbish 69 · Parks 53 · Graffiti 47 |
| Schools | 0 | 0 |
| Parks | 4 | 4 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 1 | 0 |
| Bus stops | — | 4 |
| Bus routes through | — | 1 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Bottle Lake's page · Kainga's page
Questions, answered briefly
Bottle Lake counts 1,090 people (2023) to Kainga's 480; Bottle Lake covers 12.44 km², Kainga 2.88 km²; the record holds 549 reports for Bottle Lake and 406 for Kainga.
Kainga, 1 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.