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
| Coutts Island | Northwood | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | — | 4,460 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | — | 4,287 indicative |
| Census households | — | 1,695 |
| Under 15 (Census) | — | 13% |
| 65+ (Census) | — | 26% |
| Area | 12.01 km² | 6.33 km² |
| People per km² | — | 705 |
| Reports filed | 427 | 2,309 |
| Rank on the roll | 90th of 108 | 59th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 36 | 365 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2026-10-01 7 reports | 2023-02-27 10 reports |
| Crashes on record | 5 0 fatal · 2 serious | 54 1 fatal · 10 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 2 biggest M3.2 | 2 biggest M3.2 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | TC2 18.1% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | — | 0.8% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 2% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 7% of the outline | 12% of the outline |
| The kept view | 13% of the outline +13% outstanding | 11% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 11% high-hazard | 6% high-hazard · 9% managed |
| The quiet lines | 88% of the outline · 85% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · 69% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 104 reaches (Waimakariri River South Branch, Otukaikino Creek) · 13% setback strips · held edge | 55 reaches (Styx River, Harts Creek) · 12% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | 4% under density overlays · Suburban |
| The rebuild’s receipts | – | 587 frames filed · 2010–2014 |
| The pedal network | – | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Northern Line |
| The remembered names | 8 plaques · Coutts Island War Memorial, Groynes | 20 plaques · Groynes, Styx Mill Conservation Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 7 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 7 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 1 parcel none current | 5 parcels none current |
| Made ground on file | 3 parcels all vouched or natural | 130 parcels 3 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | 2 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | possible 98% of the outline | possible 90% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 51 trees 7 veterans · 16 remembered felled | 2,148 trees 6 veterans · 512 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Waimakariri 75% of the outline | Specific Purpose (Golf Resort) 32% of the outline · 21% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | – | 5% of the outline 5 designations · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Dumped Rubbish 121 · Parks 58 · Rubbish/Recycling 44 | Parks 318 · Overgrown Vegetation 254 · Roading/Streets 243 |
| Schools | 0 | 0 |
| Parks | 4 | 17 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 1 | 0 |
| Bus stops | — | 12 |
| Bus routes through | — | 2 |
| Heritage places | 1 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Coutts Island's page · Northwood's page
Questions, answered briefly
Coutts Island covers 12.01 km², Northwood 6.33 km²; the record holds 427 reports for Coutts Island and 2,309 for Northwood.
Coutts Island, 1 on the heritage register to the other’s 0.
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.