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
| Christchurch Central City | Richmond | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 9,180 2023 | 5,210 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 8,148 indicative | 4,770 indicative |
| Census households | 3,861 | 2,163 |
| Under 15 (Census) | — | 14% |
| 65+ (Census) | — | 12% |
| Area | 6.4 km² | 1.79 km² |
| People per km² | 1,434 | 2,911 |
| Reports filed | 73,323 | 9,444 |
| Rank on the roll | 1st of 108 | 13th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 11,457 | 5,276 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2021-05-28 234 reports | 2018-04-14 51 reports |
| Crashes on record | 1,743 14 fatal · 280 serious | 132 3 fatal · 26 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 13 biggest M4.6 | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 0.6% 4 ha | 15.3% 27 ha |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 7.6% of the outline | TC2 29.3% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 23.2% 1 event | 24.9% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 7% of the outline | 6% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 3% of the outline | 6% of the outline |
| The kept view | 4% of the outline | 4% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 36% managed | 0% high-hazard · 48% managed |
| The quiet lines | 97% of the outline · 4% loud precinct · bird-strike buffer | – |
| The drawn water | 33 reaches (Avon River, Manchester Street Drain) · 11% setback strips · held edge | 29 reaches (Dudley Creek, Avon River) · 14% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 15% under density overlays · Central City · 39 m ceiling | 41% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 9,501 frames filed · 2007–2017 | 3,386 frames filed · 2011–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.1 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · City to Sea Pathway, Heathcote Expressway +7 | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · City to Sea Pathway, Richmond Neighbourhood Greenway +1 |
| The remembered names | 432 plaques · Botanic Gardens, Hagley Park North | 4 plaques · Avebury Park, Richmond Playground |
| The rules on the ground | 31 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 12 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 82 parcels 34 current | 8 parcels 3 current |
| Made ground on file | 118 parcels 20 unvouched | 56 parcels 3 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 28 parcels 8 verified | 3 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 67% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | high 100% of the outline · 13 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 12,454 trees 583 veterans · 3,889 remembered felled | 1,372 trees 20 veterans · 839 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Community Parks 31% of the outline · 16% residential | Medium density residential zone 36% of the outline · 41% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 8% of the outline 15 designations · other, learning, movement | 4% of the outline 2 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 9% of the outline 32 matters · heritage, section 6 | 24% of the outline 2 matters · heritage, infrastructure |
| The listed city | 188 scheduled items 105 highly significant | 5 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 27,565 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 8,398 · Roading/Streets 5,297 | Graffiti 2,167 · Rubbish/Recycling 1,430 · Dumped Rubbish 1,249 |
| Schools | 4 | 2 |
| Parks | 35 | 8 |
| Facilities | 10 | 0 |
| Tracks | 30 | 10 |
| Bus stops | 76 | 18 |
| Bus routes through | 17 | 4 |
| Heritage places | 185 | 6 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Christchurch Central City's page · Richmond's page
Questions, answered briefly
Christchurch Central City counts 9,180 people (2023) to Richmond's 5,210; Christchurch Central City covers 6.4 km², Richmond 1.79 km²; the record holds 73,323 reports for Christchurch Central City and 9,444 for Richmond.
Christchurch Central City, 185 on the heritage register to the other’s 6.
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.