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
| Halswell | Westmorland | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 13,620 2023 | 2,910 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 10,443 indicative | 2,667 indicative |
| Census households | 3,732 | 945 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 20% | 16% |
| 65+ (Census) | 13% | 18% |
| Area | 22.8 km² | 2.51 km² |
| People per km² | 597 | 1,159 |
| Reports filed | 11,540 | 1,501 |
| Rank on the roll | 9th of 108 | 69th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 506 | 598 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2024-03-29 30 reports | 2026-01-06 11 reports |
| Crashes on record | 279 11 fatal · 69 serious | 18 0 fatal · 7 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 70 biggest M4.8 | 24 biggest M3.7 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 16.7% of the outline | TC2 7.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 6.3% 1 event | 43.7% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | 0% of the outline +1% broad overlay | 3% of the outline +45% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | — | 1% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 2% of the outline +1% identified only | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | — | 1% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 1% high-hazard · 19% managed | 17% high-hazard · 41% managed · 1 ponding |
| The quiet lines | 9% of the outline · bird-strike buffer | – |
| The drawn water | 180 reaches (Miln Drain, Nottingham Stream) · 3% setback strips · held edge | 41 reaches (Cashmere Stream, Dunbar Waterway) · 7% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 5% under density overlays · New Neighbourhood | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,719 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 882 frames filed · 2011–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Little River Link, Quarryman's Trail | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 13 plaques · Halswell Domain, Westlake Reserve | 1 plaque · Penruddock 2 Drainage Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 16 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 2 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 10 parcels 5 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 735 parcels 4 unvouched | 188 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 5 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | possible 37% of the outline · 3 free-face flags | possible 47% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 9,222 trees 153 veterans · 1,596 remembered felled | 642 trees 1 veteran · 129 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Urban Fringe 20% of the outline · 36% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 35% of the outline · 39% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 3% of the outline 4 designations · movement, learning | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 5 scheduled items 3 highly significant | – |
| The usual complaints | Roading/Streets 1,112 · Graffiti 1,069 · Parks 1,059 | Roading/Streets 192 · Water Leak 167 · Parks 140 |
| Schools | 5 | 0 |
| Parks | 40 | 5 |
| Facilities | 2 | 0 |
| Tracks | 14 | 3 |
| Bus stops | 70 | 12 |
| Bus routes through | 6 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 8 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Halswell's page · Westmorland's page
Questions, answered briefly
Halswell counts 13,620 people (2023) to Westmorland's 2,910; Halswell covers 22.8 km², Westmorland 2.51 km²; the record holds 11,540 reports for Halswell and 1,501 for Westmorland.
Halswell, 8 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.