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

	Fendalton	Merivale
Population	4,870 2023	5,560 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	6,273 indicative	5,340 indicative
Census households	2,319	2,217
Under 15 (Census)	15%	15%
65+ (Census)	22%	21%
Area	1.97 km²	2.08 km²
People per km²	2,472	2,673
Reports filed	3,101	4,878
Rank on the roll	47th of 108	30th of 108
Reports per km²	1,574	2,345
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2016-12-19 134 reports	2023-07-19 34 reports
Crashes on record	145 2 fatal · 28 serious	284 0 fatal · 58 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	—	—
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	—
The 2011 grade	TC3 35.2% of the outline	TC2 133.9% of the outline
Flooded on record	15.0% 2 events	7.4% 2 events
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	—	—
The remembered ground	8% of the outline	—
The wild ledger	7% of the outline +3% identified only	—
The kept view	11% of the outline +7% outstanding	—
The waiting water	0% high-hazard · 45% managed	0% high-hazard · 55% managed
The quiet lines	all of the outline · 1% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer	all of the outline · bird-strike buffer
The drawn water	68 reaches (Avon River, Fendalton Stream) · 12% setback strips · held edge	39 reaches (Wilkins Drain, Cross Stream) · 4% setback strips · held edge
The allowed shape	15% under density overlays · Suburban	37% under density overlays · Medium Density
The rebuild’s receipts	753 frames filed · 2011–2016	1,697 frames filed · 2010–2016
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline · Northern Line, Uni-Cycle	0.0 km inside the outline · Northern Line
The remembered names	11 plaques · Jeffreys Reserve, Waiwetu Reserve	7 plaques · Elmwood Park, Millbrook Reserve
The rules on the ground	17 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga	20 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	2 parcels none current	2 parcels 1 current
Made ground on file	135 parcels 6 unvouched	150 parcels 2 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	–	–
Cleanups on file	1 parcel none verified	–
The model’s verdict	medium 66% of the outline · 10 free-face flags	medium 68% of the outline · 13 free-face flags
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	1,965 trees 73 veterans · 702 remembered felled	1,195 trees 74 veterans · 520 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Residential Suburban 45% of the outline · 60% residential	Residential Suburban 31% of the outline · 70% residential
The plan’s reservations	6% of the outline 2 designations · learning	4% of the outline 3 designations · learning
The plan’s exceptions	25% of the outline 20 matters · heritage, utilities, section 6	1% of the outline 2 matters · heritage
The listed city	19 scheduled items 12 highly significant	24 scheduled items 2 highly significant
The usual complaints	Roading/Streets 647 · Graffiti 383 · Water Leak 312	Graffiti 768 · Roading/Streets 654 · Water Leak 520
Schools	2	6
Parks	6	6
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	16	10
Bus stops	28	33
Bus routes through	3	5
Heritage places	32	33

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

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Fendalton and Merivale?

Fendalton counts 4,870 people (2023) to Merivale's 5,560; Fendalton covers 1.97 km², Merivale 2.08 km²; the record holds 3,101 reports for Fendalton and 4,878 for Merivale.

Which has more heritage places, Fendalton or Merivale?

Merivale, 33 on the heritage register to the other’s 32.

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.