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
| Cracroft | Westmorland | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | — | 2,910 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 3,540 indicative | 2,667 indicative |
| Census households | 1,311 | 945 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 19% | 16% |
| 65+ (Census) | 19% | 18% |
| Area | 2.7 km² | 2.51 km² |
| People per km² | — | 1,159 |
| Reports filed | 1,025 | 1,501 |
| Rank on the roll | 76th of 108 | 69th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 380 | 598 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2016-04-13 10 reports | 2026-01-06 11 reports |
| Crashes on record | 6 0 fatal · 0 serious | 18 0 fatal · 7 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 77 biggest M4.3 | 24 biggest M3.7 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | TC2 7.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 29.5% 1 event | 43.7% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | 4% of the outline +61% broad overlay | 3% of the outline +45% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | — | 1% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | — | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | 26% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 15% high-hazard · 25% managed · 9 ponding | 17% high-hazard · 41% managed · 1 ponding |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 23 reaches (Cashmere Valley Drain, Worsleys Drain) · 10% setback strips · held edge | 41 reaches (Cashmere Stream, Dunbar Waterway) · 7% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 382 frames filed · 2011–2013 | 882 frames filed · 2011–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 5 plaques · Holmcroft Reserve, Cashmere Stream Esplanade Rese | 1 plaque · Penruddock 2 Drainage Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 2 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | – |
| Made ground on file | 53 parcels 1 unvouched | 188 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | – |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 61% of the outline | possible 47% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 344 trees 12 veterans · 69 remembered felled | 642 trees 1 veteran · 129 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Port Hills 30% of the outline · 35% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 35% of the outline · 39% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | – | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | – |
| The usual complaints | Parks 111 · Roading/Streets 110 · Water Leak 86 | Roading/Streets 192 · Water Leak 167 · Parks 140 |
| Schools | 0 | 0 |
| Parks | 5 | 5 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 2 | 3 |
| Bus stops | — | 12 |
| Bus routes through | — | 1 |
| Heritage places | 2 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Cracroft's page · Westmorland's page
Questions, answered briefly
Cracroft covers 2.7 km², Westmorland 2.51 km²; the record holds 1,025 reports for Cracroft and 1,501 for Westmorland.
Cracroft, 2 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.