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
| Clifton | Sumner | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,950 2023 | 3,490 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 1,881 indicative | 3,414 indicative |
| Census households | 738 | 1,344 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 22% | — |
| Area | 0.85 km² | 11.99 km² |
| People per km² | 2,294 | 291 |
| Reports filed | 1,401 | 4,632 |
| Rank on the roll | 72nd of 108 | 32nd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,648 | 386 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-06-10 8 reports | 2023-06-20 49 reports |
| Crashes on record | 19 1 fatal · 9 serious | 75 4 fatal · 22 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 7 biggest M3.5 | 101 biggest M5.3 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 5.6% 5 ha | 2.5% 30 ha |
| The 2011 grade | — | TC2 6.3% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | — | 2.5% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | 5% of the outline | 10% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | 14% of the outline +83% broad overlay | 10% of the outline +80% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 100% of the outline | 55% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 2% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 5% of the outline +1% outstanding | 83% of the outline +82% outstanding |
| The waiting water | — | 0% high-hazard · 6% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 19 reaches (Panorama Road Outfall, Kinsey Terrace Drain) · 2% setback strips · held edge | 87 reaches (Sumner Stream, Richmond Hill Waterway) · 8% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 2% under density overlays · Hills | 0% under density overlays · 9 bach settlements |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,494 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 1,042 frames filed · 2011–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway |
| The remembered names | 3 plaques · Shag Rock Reserve, Brownlee Reserve | 24 plaques · Scarborough Park, Port Hills 11 Rrz Land |
| The rules on the ground | 6 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 29 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel 1 current | 2 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 56 parcels all vouched or natural | 54 parcels 2 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | 136 rocks 77 fell · 4 wobble easy | 6,354 rocks 3,792 fell · 1,176 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel 1 verified | 1 parcel none verified |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 94% of the outline | unlikely 43% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | 1 defence none rated poor | 47 defences none rated poor |
| The canopy | 137 trees no veterans · 83 remembered felled | 683 trees 5 veterans · 444 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Hills 73% of the outline · 75% residential | Open Space Natural 68% of the outline · 11% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | – | 1% of the outline 2 designations · power & signal, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 2% of the outline 5 matters · section 6, heritage | 1% of the outline 3 matters · section 6 |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item 1 highly significant | 13 scheduled items 2 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Roading/Streets 189 · Graffiti 129 · Parks 119 | Parks 483 · Graffiti 479 · Water Leak 466 |
| Schools | 0 | 3 |
| Parks | 5 | 13 |
| Facilities | 0 | 1 |
| Tracks | 1 | 9 |
| Bus stops | 3 | 24 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 39 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Clifton's page · Sumner's page
Questions, answered briefly
Clifton counts 1,950 people (2023) to Sumner's 3,490; Clifton covers 0.85 km², Sumner 11.99 km²; the record holds 1,401 reports for Clifton and 4,632 for Sumner.
Sumner, 39 on the heritage register to the other’s 1.
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.