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
| Dallington | Mairehau | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,560 2023 | 7,100 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,430 indicative | 7,053 indicative |
| Census households | 978 | 2,670 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 18% | 18% |
| 65+ (Census) | 17% | 17% |
| Area | 1.33 km² | 4.53 km² |
| People per km² | 1,925 | 1,567 |
| Reports filed | 3,314 | 6,750 |
| Rank on the roll | 44th of 108 | 19th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 2,492 | 1,490 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2022-08-05 31 reports | 2016-04-21 57 reports |
| Crashes on record | 30 1 fatal · 7 serious | 269 4 fatal · 44 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 2 biggest M3.3 | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 97.7% 130 ha | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 47.3% of the outline | TC2 77.9% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 27.0% 2 events | 38.9% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 2% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 3% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 2% of the outline | — |
| The waiting water | 7% high-hazard · 85% managed | 9% high-hazard · 65% managed · 5 ponding |
| The quiet lines | – | 72% of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 7 reaches (Avon River, Moyna Ave Drain) · 13% setback strips · held edge | 173 reaches (Dudley Creek, Winters Road Drain) · 7% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 7% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition | 7% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,666 frames filed · 2001–2017 | 2,710 frames filed · 2001–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · City to Sea Pathway | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 2 plaques · Avon Corridor 5 Rrz Land | 1 plaque · Walter Park |
| The rules on the ground | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | 10 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 83 parcels 2 unvouched | 127 parcels 9 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | 7 parcels 1 verified |
| The model’s verdict | high 74% of the outline · 6 free-face flags | medium 51% of the outline · 3 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 753 trees 42 veterans · 323 remembered felled | 1,656 trees 6 veterans · 751 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor) 54% of the outline · 32% residential | Residential Suburban 42% of the outline · 57% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 2% of the outline 1 designation · learning | 23% of the outline 11 designations · pipes, movement, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Rubbish/Recycling 740 · Graffiti 554 · Dumped Rubbish 539 | Graffiti 1,308 · Water Leak 757 · Roading/Streets 638 |
| Schools | 0 | 1 |
| Parks | 3 | 11 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 2 | 18 |
| Bus stops | 3 | 32 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 5 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Dallington's page · Mairehau's page
Questions, answered briefly
Dallington counts 2,560 people (2023) to Mairehau's 7,100; Dallington covers 1.33 km², Mairehau 4.53 km²; the record holds 3,314 reports for Dallington and 6,750 for Mairehau.
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.