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
| Ferrymead | Heathcote Valley | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,220 2023 | 2,430 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 1,164 indicative | 2,379 indicative |
| Census households | 426 | 1,011 |
| Under 15 (Census) | — | 15% |
| 65+ (Census) | — | 24% |
| Area | 2.47 km² | 8.28 km² |
| People per km² | 494 | 293 |
| Reports filed | 3,062 | 3,284 |
| Rank on the roll | 48th of 108 | 45th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,240 | 397 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2016-06-01 18 reports | 2017-08-14 14 reports |
| Crashes on record | 71 3 fatal · 20 serious | 66 3 fatal · 16 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 19 biggest M4.1 | 103 biggest M6.2 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 3.3% 8 ha | 8.3% 69 ha |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 0.8% of the outline | TC2 6.1% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 62.9% 1 event | 5.2% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | 73% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | 3% of the outline +3% broad overlay | 37% of the outline +50% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 16% of the outline | 2% of the outline +7% silent-file |
| The wild ledger | 45% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 33% of the outline | 63% of the outline +63% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 25% high-hazard · 86% managed | 0% high-hazard · 4% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 93 reaches (Matuku Waterway, Avoca Valley Stream) · 23% setback strips · held edge | 77 reaches (Bridle Path Waterway, Whites Waterway) · 6% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 781 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 1,593 frames filed · 2010–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway, Rapanui Shag Rock +1 | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway |
| The remembered names | 5 plaques · Avon And Heathcote Estuary, Ferrymead Park | 4 plaques · Heathcote Domain, Martindales Reserve No. 2 |
| The rules on the ground | 9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 23 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 8 parcels 4 current | 4 parcels 2 current |
| Made ground on file | 24 parcels 11 unvouched | 124 parcels 2 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | 400 rocks 326 fell · 47 wobble easy | 5,632 rocks 3,375 fell · 279 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | – | 2 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | possible 61% of the outline · 2 free-face flags | unlikely 76% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | 96 defences 1 rated poor |
| The canopy | 450 trees no veterans · 132 remembered felled | 763 trees 11 veterans · 219 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Natural 40% of the outline | Rural Port Hills 33% of the outline · 12% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 4% of the outline 3 designations · movement | 5% of the outline 5 designations · movement, power & signal |
| The plan’s exceptions | 4% of the outline 4 matters · section 6, utilities | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | 1 scheduled item 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 750 · Dumped Rubbish 325 · Rubbish/Recycling 245 | Graffiti 566 · Water Leak 383 · Roading/Streets 376 |
| Schools | 0 | 1 |
| Parks | 7 | 15 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 6 | 3 |
| Bus stops | 9 | 25 |
| Bus routes through | 3 | 2 |
| Heritage places | 2 | 3 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Ferrymead's page · Heathcote Valley's page
Questions, answered briefly
Ferrymead counts 1,220 people (2023) to Heathcote Valley's 2,430; Ferrymead covers 2.47 km², Heathcote Valley 8.28 km²; the record holds 3,062 reports for Ferrymead and 3,284 for Heathcote Valley.
Heathcote Valley, 3 on the heritage register to the other’s 2.
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.