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

	Edgeware	Merivale
Population	5,000 2023	5,560 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	4,404 indicative	5,340 indicative
Census households	2,058	2,217
Under 15 (Census)	11%	15%
65+ (Census)	9%	21%
Area	0.97 km²	2.08 km²
People per km²	5,155	2,673
Reports filed	5,242	4,878
Rank on the roll	25th of 108	30th of 108
Reports per km²	5,404	2,345
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2018-06-23 56 reports	2023-07-19 34 reports
Crashes on record	135 2 fatal · 32 serious	284 0 fatal · 58 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	—	—
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	—
The 2011 grade	—	TC2 133.9% of the outline
Flooded on record	27.1% 2 events	7.4% 2 events
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	—	—
The remembered ground	—	—
The wild ledger	—	—
The kept view	—	—
The waiting water	0% high-hazard · 58% managed	0% high-hazard · 55% managed
The quiet lines	1% of the outline · bird-strike buffer	all of the outline · bird-strike buffer
The drawn water	24 reaches (St Albans Creek, Bings Drain) · 2% setback strips	39 reaches (Wilkins Drain, Cross Stream) · 4% setback strips · held edge
The allowed shape	76% under density overlays · Medium Density	37% under density overlays · Medium Density
The rebuild’s receipts	1,741 frames filed · 2009–2017	1,697 frames filed · 2010–2016
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline	0.0 km inside the outline · Northern Line
The remembered names	1 plaque · St Albans Park	7 plaques · Elmwood Park, Millbrook Reserve
The rules on the ground	7 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga	20 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	3 parcels 1 current	2 parcels 1 current
Made ground on file	24 parcels 3 unvouched	150 parcels 2 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	–	–
Cleanups on file	2 parcels none verified	–
The model’s verdict	high 85% of the outline · 6 free-face flags	medium 68% of the outline · 13 free-face flags
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	730 trees no veterans · 378 remembered felled	1,195 trees 74 veterans · 520 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Medium density residential zone 76% of the outline · 76% residential	Residential Suburban 31% of the outline · 70% residential
The plan’s reservations	1% of the outline 2 designations · learning, movement	4% of the outline 3 designations · learning
The plan’s exceptions	0% of the outline 1 matter · nps matter	1% of the outline 2 matters · heritage
The listed city	–	24 scheduled items 2 highly significant
The usual complaints	Graffiti 1,447 · Water Leak 543 · Dumped Rubbish 521	Graffiti 768 · Roading/Streets 654 · Water Leak 520
Schools	0	6
Parks	3	6
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	2	10
Bus stops	23	33
Bus routes through	3	5
Heritage places	0	33

Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Edgeware's page · Merivale's page

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Edgeware and Merivale?

Edgeware counts 5,000 people (2023) to Merivale's 5,560; Edgeware covers 0.97 km², Merivale 2.08 km²; the record holds 5,242 reports for Edgeware and 4,878 for Merivale.

Which has more heritage places, Edgeware or Merivale?

Merivale, 33 on the heritage register to the other’s 0.

Where do these numbers come from?

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.

A shared pair answers without a script, the tries above render straight from the record. To pick your own suburbs, the record is still readable: every suburb has its own page under /suburb.

Questions, answered briefly

What does this page compare?

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.

Does a suburb with more reports have more problems?

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.

Where does the data come from?

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.