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	Yaldhurst
Population	306	2,700 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,784 indicative	2,355 indicative
Census households	1,065	822
Under 15 (Census)	20%	16%
65+ (Census)	18%	13%
Area	2.08 km²	18.02 km²
People per km²	147	150
Reports filed	1,403	1,479
Rank on the roll	71st of 108	70th of 108
Reports per km²	675	82
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2017-09-04 10 reports	2025-01-14 28 reports
Crashes on record	21 0 fatal · 7 serious	147 7 fatal · 33 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	2 biggest M3.7	5 biggest M3.4
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	—
The 2011 grade	—	TC1 1.3% of the outline
Flooded on record	—	—
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	—	—
The remembered ground	—	—
The wild ledger	—	2% of the outline
The kept view	—	15% of the outline
The waiting water	—	—
The quiet lines	all of the outline · bird-strike buffer	all of the outline · 83% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer
The drawn water	16 reaches (Paparua Stream, Paparua South Branch) · 2% setback strips	17 reaches (Paparua Stream, Paparua Stream Branch No 3)
The allowed shape	1% under density overlays · Medium Density	1% under density overlays · Medium Density
The rebuild’s receipts	365 frames filed · 2012–2014	228 frames filed · 2012–2013
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline · South Express	0.0 km inside the outline
The remembered names	1 plaque · Glen Kerran Drainage Reserve	1 plaque · Yaldhurst Hall
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	3 parcels 1 current
Made ground on file	47 parcels all vouched or natural	77 parcels all vouched or natural
Surveyed rocks	–	–
Cleanups on file	2 parcels 1 verified	–
The model’s verdict	low 100% of the outline	unlikely 58% of the outline
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	1,117 trees no veterans · 518 remembered felled	1,493 trees no veterans · 219 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 38% of the outline · 43% residential	Rural Urban Fringe 55% of the outline
The plan’s reservations	4% of the outline 1 designation · movement	20% of the outline 7 designations · movement, learning
The plan’s exceptions	–	1% of the outline 2 matters · utilities
The listed city	1 scheduled item 1 highly significant	2 scheduled items 1 highly significant
The usual complaints	Dumped Rubbish 276 · Graffiti 175 · Overgrown Vegetation 103	Dumped Rubbish 233 · Roading/Streets 213 · Overgrown Vegetation 136
Schools	0	1
Parks	14	9
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	3	0
Bus stops	4	2
Bus routes through	2	1
Heritage places	1	1

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

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Broomfield and Yaldhurst?

Broomfield counts 306 people (the last count) to Yaldhurst's 2,700; Broomfield covers 2.08 km², Yaldhurst 18.02 km²; the record holds 1,403 reports for Broomfield and 1,479 for Yaldhurst.

Which has more heritage places, Broomfield or Yaldhurst?

Even, 1 each on the heritage register.

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.