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
| Heathcote Valley | Hillsborough | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,430 2023 | 2,430 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,379 indicative | 2,373 indicative |
| Census households | 1,011 | 936 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 17% |
| 65+ (Census) | 24% | 18% |
| Area | 8.28 km² | 6.7 km² |
| People per km² | 293 | 363 |
| Reports filed | 3,284 | 2,992 |
| Rank on the roll | 45th of 108 | 50th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 397 | 447 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-08-14 14 reports | 2026-08-29 12 reports |
| Crashes on record | 66 3 fatal · 16 serious | 91 0 fatal · 29 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 103 biggest M6.2 | 52 biggest M4.9 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 8.3% 69 ha | 0.8% 5 ha |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 6.1% of the outline | TC2 6.3% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 5.2% 1 event | 11.2% 4 events |
| The sea’s reach | 1% of the outline | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | 37% of the outline +50% broad overlay | 10% of the outline +63% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 2% of the outline +7% silent-file | 1% of the outline +13% silent-file |
| The wild ledger | — | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | 63% of the outline +63% outstanding | 61% of the outline +57% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 4% managed | 1% high-hazard · 20% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 77 reaches (Bridle Path Waterway, Whites Waterway) · 6% setback strips | 90 reaches (Victory Drain, Popes Drain) · 15% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,593 frames filed · 2010–2017 | 1,778 frames filed · 2009–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 4 plaques · Heathcote Domain, Martindales Reserve No. 2 | 5 plaques · Monro Playground, Heathcote Riverbank Tr South |
| The rules on the ground | 23 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga | 15 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 4 parcels 2 current | 11 parcels 4 current |
| Made ground on file | 124 parcels 2 unvouched | 105 parcels 7 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | 5,632 rocks 3,375 fell · 279 wobble easy | 923 rocks 612 fell · 73 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels none verified | 2 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 76% of the outline | unlikely 69% of the outline · 3 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | 96 defences 1 rated poor | 88 defences 6 rated poor |
| The canopy | 762 trees 11 veterans · 220 remembered felled | 983 trees 24 veterans · 432 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Port Hills 33% of the outline · 12% residential | Open Space Natural 52% of the outline · 17% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 5% of the outline 5 designations · movement, power & signal | 3% of the outline 2 designations · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item 1 highly significant | 1 scheduled item none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 566 · Water Leak 383 · Roading/Streets 376 | Water Leak 395 · Roading/Streets 363 · Graffiti 252 |
| Schools | 1 | 1 |
| Parks | 15 | 11 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 3 | 16 |
| Bus stops | 25 | 11 |
| Bus routes through | 2 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 3 | 7 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Heathcote Valley's page · Hillsborough's page
Questions, answered briefly
Heathcote Valley counts 2,430 people (2023) to Hillsborough's 2,430; Heathcote Valley covers 8.28 km², Hillsborough 6.7 km²; the record holds 3,284 reports for Heathcote Valley and 2,992 for Hillsborough.
Hillsborough, 7 on the heritage register to the other’s 3.
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.