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

	Burwood	Marshland
Population	6,360 2023	1,540 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	3,564 indicative	1,392 indicative
Census households	1,329	498
Under 15 (Census)	21%	15%
65+ (Census)	15%	30%
Area	5.88 km²	8.75 km²
People per km²	1,082	176
Reports filed	8,194	2,470
Rank on the roll	15th of 108	56th of 108
Reports per km²	1,394	282
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2023-10-30 59 reports	2021-06-02 19 reports
Crashes on record	219 1 fatal · 44 serious	253 5 fatal · 62 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	5 biggest M3.3	4 biggest M3.8
Of the outline, red-zoned	10.2% 60 ha	—
The 2011 grade	TC3 31.1% of the outline	—
Flooded on record	43.2% 2 events	19.6% 1 event
The sea’s reach	3% of the outline	—
Slope-hazard bands	—	—
The remembered ground	52% of the outline	—
The wild ledger	28% of the outline	2% of the outline
The kept view	23% of the outline +19% outstanding	1% of the outline
The waiting water	27% high-hazard · 65% managed	3% high-hazard · 15% managed · 1 ponding
The quiet lines	–	31% of the outline · bird-strike buffer
The drawn water	81 reaches (Angela Stream, Horseshoe Lake Outlet) · 10% setback strips · held edge	162 reaches (Rhodes Drain, Canal Reserve Drain) · 4% setback strips · held edge
The allowed shape	1% under density overlays · Suburban	1% under density overlays · New Neighbourhood
The rebuild’s receipts	3,224 frames filed · 2001–2016	57 frames filed · 2011–2014
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline	0.0 km inside the outline
The remembered names	10 plaques · Donnell Sports Park, Brooker Monument	4 plaques · Little Poland Park, John Lindsay Drainage Reserve
The rules on the ground	16 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga	4 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	10 parcels 3 current	2 parcels 2 current
Made ground on file	438 parcels 7 unvouched	309 parcels 4 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	–	–
Cleanups on file	2 parcels none verified	2 parcels none verified
The model’s verdict	high 48% of the outline · 9 free-face flags	possible 70% of the outline
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	2,250 trees 72 veterans · 1,404 remembered felled	2,388 trees 10 veterans · 470 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Residential Suburban 29% of the outline · 32% residential	Rural Urban Fringe 57% of the outline · 33% residential
The plan’s reservations	2% of the outline 3 designations · movement	1% of the outline 3 designations · movement
The plan’s exceptions	3% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure	3% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure
The listed city	–	1 scheduled item none top-graded
The usual complaints	Graffiti 1,905 · Rubbish/Recycling 1,280 · Dumped Rubbish 995	Overgrown Vegetation 298 · Roading/Streets 295 · Parks 271
Schools	1	1
Parks	18	3
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	25	8
Bus stops	46	10
Bus routes through	5	1
Heritage places	0	1

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

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Burwood and Marshland?

Burwood counts 6,360 people (2023) to Marshland's 1,540; Burwood covers 5.88 km², Marshland 8.75 km²; the record holds 8,194 reports for Burwood and 2,470 for Marshland.

Which has more heritage places, Burwood or Marshland?

Marshland, 1 on the heritage register to the other’s 0.

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.