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
| Broomfield | Islington | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 306 | 1,040 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,784 indicative | 954 indicative |
| Census households | 1,065 | 363 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 20% | 15% |
| 65+ (Census) | 18% | 15% |
| Area | 2.08 km² | 6.15 km² |
| People per km² | 147 | 169 |
| Reports filed | 1,403 | 1,892 |
| Rank on the roll | 71st of 108 | 66th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 675 | 308 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-09-04 10 reports | 2024-10-31 15 reports |
| Crashes on record | 21 0 fatal · 7 serious | 90 2 fatal · 19 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 2 biggest M3.7 | 3 biggest M4.2 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | — | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | 10% of the outline |
| The kept view | — | — |
| The waiting water | — | — |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · 50% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 16 reaches (Paparua Stream, Paparua South Branch) · 2% setback strips | – |
| The allowed shape | 1% under density overlays · Medium Density | 2% under density overlays · Suburban |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 365 frames filed · 2012–2014 | 327 frames filed · 2012–2014 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · South Express | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · South Express |
| The remembered names | 1 plaque · Glen Kerran Drainage Reserve | 1 plaque · Little Waterloo Park |
| The rules on the ground | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 2 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel none current | 30 parcels 19 current |
| Made ground on file | 47 parcels all vouched or natural | 63 parcels 7 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 1 verified | 3 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | low 100% of the outline | low 70% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,117 trees no veterans · 518 remembered felled | 420 trees 1 veteran · 204 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 38% of the outline · 43% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 23% of the outline · 12% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 4% of the outline 1 designation · movement | 15% of the outline 5 designations · power & signal, movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 1% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item 1 highly significant | – |
| The usual complaints | Dumped Rubbish 276 · Graffiti 175 · Overgrown Vegetation 103 | Dumped Rubbish 405 · Roading/Streets 244 · Graffiti 199 |
| Schools | 0 | 0 |
| Parks | 14 | 8 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 3 | 2 |
| Bus stops | 4 | 8 |
| Bus routes through | 2 | 2 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Broomfield's page · Islington's page
Questions, answered briefly
Broomfield counts 306 people (the last count) to Islington's 1,040; Broomfield covers 2.08 km², Islington 6.15 km²; the record holds 1,403 reports for Broomfield and 1,892 for Islington.
Broomfield, 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.