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 | Waltham | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 9,180 2023 | 4,460 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 8,148 indicative | 2,175 indicative |
| Census households | 3,861 | 999 |
| Under 15 (Census) | — | — |
| 65+ (Census) | — | — |
| Area | 6.4 km² | 1.77 km² |
| People per km² | 1,434 | 2,520 |
| Reports filed | 73,487 | 9,571 |
| Rank on the roll | 1st of 108 | 12th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 11,482 | 5,407 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2021-05-28 234 reports | 2022-02-16 42 reports |
| Crashes on record | 1,749 14 fatal · 281 serious | 343 2 fatal · 82 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 13 biggest M4.6 | 1 biggest M3.9 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 0.6% 4 ha | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 7.6% of the outline | TC3 16.3% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 23.2% 1 event | 1.9% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 7% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 3% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 4% of the outline | — |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 36% managed | 0% high-hazard · 41% 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 | 11 reaches (Jacksons Creek Lower, Jacksons Creek Lower Branch) · 1% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 15% under density overlays · Central City · 39 m ceiling | 39% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 9,501 frames filed · 2007–2017 | 4,046 frames filed · 2009–2016 |
| 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 · Heathcote Expressway, Ōpāwaho River |
| The remembered names | 432 plaques · Botanic Gardens, Hagley Park North | 10 plaques · Edmonds Factory Garden, Waltham Park |
| The rules on the ground | 31 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 13 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 82 parcels 34 current | 51 parcels 36 current |
| Made ground on file | 118 parcels 20 unvouched | 32 parcels 11 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 28 parcels 8 verified | 6 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 67% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | medium 64% of the outline · 3 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 12,454 trees 583 veterans · 3,889 remembered felled | 965 trees 42 veterans · 635 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Community Parks 31% of the outline · 16% residential | Medium density residential zone 38% of the outline · 39% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 8% of the outline 15 designations · other, learning, movement | 16% of the outline 6 designations · movement, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 9% of the outline 32 matters · heritage, section 6 | 5% of the outline 11 matters · residential, nps matter, heritage |
| 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 8,458 · Roading/Streets 5,297 | Graffiti 2,232 · Dumped Rubbish 1,574 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 895 |
| Schools | 4 | 2 |
| Parks | 35 | 7 |
| Facilities | 10 | 0 |
| Tracks | 30 | 13 |
| Bus stops | 76 | 17 |
| Bus routes through | 17 | 6 |
| Heritage places | 185 | 6 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Christchurch Central City's page · Waltham's page
Questions, answered briefly
Christchurch Central City counts 9,180 people (2023) to Waltham's 4,460; Christchurch Central City covers 6.4 km², Waltham 1.77 km²; the record holds 73,487 reports for Christchurch Central City and 9,571 for Waltham.
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.