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 | Shirley | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 6,360 2023 | 7,140 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 3,564 indicative | 6,876 indicative |
| Census households | 1,329 | 2,565 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 21% | 17% |
| 65+ (Census) | 15% | 19% |
| Area | 5.88 km² | 2.75 km² |
| People per km² | 1,082 | 2,596 |
| Reports filed | 8,206 | 4,700 |
| Rank on the roll | 15th of 108 | 31st of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,396 | 1,709 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-10-30 59 reports | 2022-01-04 36 reports |
| Crashes on record | 219 1 fatal · 44 serious | 248 1 fatal · 50 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 5 biggest M3.3 | 2 biggest M3.2 |
| 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 | 2.0% 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 | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | 23% of the outline +19% outstanding | — |
| The waiting water | 27% high-hazard · 65% managed | 0% high-hazard · 27% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 81 reaches (Angela Stream, Horseshoe Lake Outlet) · 10% setback strips · held edge | 29 reaches (Shirley Stream, No 1 Drain) · 2% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 1% under density overlays · Suburban | 35% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 3,224 frames filed · 2001–2016 | 1,794 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| 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 | – |
| The rules on the ground | 16 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 7 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 | 184 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | high 48% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | medium 82% of the outline · 3 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 2,249 trees 72 veterans · 1,405 remembered felled | 1,047 trees 3 veterans · 692 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 29% of the outline · 32% residential | Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 19% of the outline · 51% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 2% of the outline 3 designations · movement | 4% of the outline 3 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 3% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure | 15% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 1,905 · Rubbish/Recycling 1,280 · Dumped Rubbish 996 | Graffiti 1,285 · Water Leak 457 · Roading/Streets 404 |
| Schools | 1 | 2 |
| Parks | 18 | 10 |
| Facilities | 0 | 2 |
| Tracks | 25 | 9 |
| Bus stops | 46 | 38 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 8 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Burwood's page · Shirley's page
Questions, answered briefly
Burwood counts 6,360 people (2023) to Shirley's 7,140; Burwood covers 5.88 km², Shirley 2.75 km²; the record holds 8,206 reports for Burwood and 4,700 for Shirley.
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.