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

	Cashmere	Somerfield
Population	6,900 2023	7,080 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	6,690 indicative	6,813 indicative
Census households	2,508	2,664
Under 15 (Census)	19%	19%
65+ (Census)	19%	18%
Area	13.19 km²	2.48 km²
People per km²	523	2,855
Reports filed	9,776	7,009
Rank on the roll	11th of 108	18th of 108
Reports per km²	741	2,826
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2022-10-11 69 reports	2016-10-02 39 reports
Crashes on record	315 7 fatal · 83 serious	165 2 fatal · 32 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	205 biggest M5.6	16 biggest M4.3
Of the outline, red-zoned	0.2% 3 ha	—
The 2011 grade	TC3 0.9% of the outline	TC2 445.0% of the outline
Flooded on record	2.5% 5 events	11.5% 4 events
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	14% of the outline +79% broad overlay	—
The remembered ground	0% of the outline +4% silent-file	2% of the outline
The wild ledger	—	2% of the outline
The kept view	65% of the outline +49% outstanding	2% of the outline
The waiting water	0% high-hazard · 1% managed · 24 ponding	1% high-hazard · 11% managed
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	119 reaches (Scotts Drain, Sibleys Drain) · 9% setback strips · held edge	25 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Tennysons Drain) · 5% setback strips · held edge
The allowed shape	–	31% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition
The rebuild’s receipts	4,305 frames filed · 2010–2016	2,130 frames filed · 2000–2016
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline · Nor'West Arc, Ōpāwaho River	0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Nor'West Arc, Quarryman's Trail +1
The remembered names	14 plaques · Cashmere Village Green, Cracroft Reserve	3 plaques · Ashgrove Reserve, Somerfield Park
The rules on the ground	34 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga	9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	11 parcels 4 current	6 parcels 4 current
Made ground on file	163 parcels 5 unvouched	68 parcels 15 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	510 rocks 212 fell · 57 wobble easy	–
Cleanups on file	6 parcels 1 verified	2 parcels 1 verified
The model’s verdict	unlikely 90% of the outline · 3 free-face flags	medium 100% of the outline
Engineered defences	4 defences 1 rated poor	–
The canopy	1,759 trees 39 veterans · 730 remembered felled	1,720 trees 31 veterans · 862 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Rural Port Hills 37% of the outline · 22% residential	Residential Suburban 35% of the outline · 67% residential
The plan’s reservations	1% of the outline 1 designation · movement	6% of the outline 3 designations · learning
The plan’s exceptions	–	–
The listed city	13 scheduled items 5 highly significant	4 scheduled items 1 highly significant
The usual complaints	Water Leak 1,276 · Graffiti 1,176 · Roading/Streets 851	Graffiti 1,202 · Water Leak 791 · Dumped Rubbish 618
Schools	2	2
Parks	27	4
Facilities	2	2
Tracks	28	12
Bus stops	36	26
Bus routes through	3	5
Heritage places	14	9

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

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Cashmere and Somerfield?

Cashmere counts 6,900 people (2023) to Somerfield's 7,080; Cashmere covers 13.19 km², Somerfield 2.48 km²; the record holds 9,776 reports for Cashmere and 7,009 for Somerfield.

Which has more heritage places, Cashmere or Somerfield?

Cashmere, 14 on the heritage register to the other’s 9.

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.