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

	Charteris Bay	Governors Bay
Population	129	900 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	1,536 indicative	882 indicative
Census households	693	339
Under 15 (Census)	—	15%
65+ (Census)	—	19%
Area	—	33.17 km²
People per km²	—	27
Reports filed	67	900
Rank on the roll	103rd of 108	80th of 108
Reports per km²	—	27
First report on record	2016	2015
Busiest day	2026-06-20 3 reports	2023-09-25 12 reports
Crashes on record	—	107 4 fatal · 47 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	—	6 biggest M4.0
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	0.9% 29 ha
The 2011 grade	—	—
Flooded on record	—	—
The sea’s reach	—	8% of the outline
Slope-hazard bands	—	6% of the outline +70% broad overlay
The remembered ground	—	49% of the outline +5% silent-file
The wild ledger	—	4% of the outline +4% identified only
The kept view	—	80% of the outline +23% outstanding · 1 ridgeline
The waiting water	—	—
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	–	74 reaches (Stream Reserve Drain) · 4% setback strips
The allowed shape	–	0% under density overlays
The rebuild’s receipts	–	86 frames filed · 2012–2014
The pedal network	–	–
The remembered names	–	9 plaques · Cholmondeley Reserve, Kennedys Bush
The rules on the ground	–	9 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga
On the hazard register	–	–
Made ground on file	–	7 parcels 1 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	–	772 rocks 136 fell · 139 wobble easy
Cleanups on file	–	1 parcel none verified
The model’s verdict	–	–
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	–	121 trees 20 veterans · 23 remembered felled
The plan’s word	–	Rural Banks Peninsula 71% of the outline
The plan’s reservations	–	–
The plan’s exceptions	–	–
The listed city	–	12 scheduled items 4 highly significant
The usual complaints	Roading/Streets 21 · Damaged Road 13 · Roads - General 4	Roading/Streets 138 · Graffiti 109 · Parks 73
Schools	0	1
Parks	0	11
Facilities	0	1
Tracks	0	0
Bus stops	—	—
Bus routes through	—	—
Heritage places	3	13

Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Charteris Bay's page · Governors Bay's page

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Charteris Bay and Governors Bay?

Charteris Bay counts 129 people (the last count) to Governors Bay's 900; the record holds 67 reports for Charteris Bay and 900 for Governors Bay.

Which has more heritage places, Charteris Bay or Governors Bay?

Governors Bay, 13 on the heritage register to the other’s 3.

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.