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 | Mount Pleasant | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,430 2023 | 4,050 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,379 indicative | 3,909 indicative |
| Census households | 1,011 | 1,572 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 16% |
| 65+ (Census) | 24% | 24% |
| Area | 8.28 km² | 3.7 km² |
| People per km² | 293 | 1,095 |
| Reports filed | 3,284 | 3,489 |
| Rank on the roll | 45th of 108 | 42nd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 397 | 943 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-08-14 14 reports | 2022-10-10 45 reports |
| Crashes on record | 66 3 fatal · 16 serious | 54 1 fatal · 15 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 103 biggest M6.2 | 33 biggest M4.1 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 8.3% 69 ha | 0.3% 1 ha |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 6.1% of the outline | TC2 2.8% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 5.2% 1 event | 0.8% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | 1% of the outline | 3% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | 37% of the outline +50% broad overlay | 1% of the outline +92% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 2% of the outline +7% silent-file | 84% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | — | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | 63% of the outline +63% outstanding | 25% of the outline +22% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 4% managed | 0% high-hazard · 3% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 77 reaches (Bridle Path Waterway, Whites Waterway) · 6% setback strips | 61 reaches (Mt Pleasant Waterway, Mt Pleasant Waterway Branch) · 8% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,593 frames filed · 2010–2017 | 5,077 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway | 0.0 km inside the outline · Rapanui Shag Rock, Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway |
| The remembered names | 4 plaques · Heathcote Domain, Martindales Reserve No. 2 | 9 plaques · Mccormacks Bay, Old School Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 23 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga | 13 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 4 parcels 2 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 124 parcels 2 unvouched | 152 parcels 4 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | 5,632 rocks 3,375 fell · 279 wobble easy | 1,000 rocks 823 fell · 34 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 76% of the outline | unlikely 94% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | 96 defences 1 rated poor | 3 defences none rated poor |
| The canopy | 763 trees 11 veterans · 219 remembered felled | 514 trees 2 veterans · 261 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Port Hills 33% of the outline · 12% residential | Residential Hills 48% of the outline · 59% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 5% of the outline 5 designations · movement, power & signal | 1% of the outline 1 designation · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item 1 highly significant | 2 scheduled items none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 566 · Water Leak 383 · Roading/Streets 376 | Roading/Streets 495 · Water Leak 442 · Graffiti 302 |
| Schools | 1 | 1 |
| Parks | 15 | 17 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 3 | 4 |
| Bus stops | 25 | 44 |
| Bus routes through | 2 | 2 |
| Heritage places | 3 | 2 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Heathcote Valley's page · Mount Pleasant's page
Questions, answered briefly
Heathcote Valley counts 2,430 people (2023) to Mount Pleasant's 4,050; Heathcote Valley covers 8.28 km², Mount Pleasant 3.7 km²; the record holds 3,284 reports for Heathcote Valley and 3,489 for Mount Pleasant.
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.