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	Redcliffs
Population	2,430 2023	2,150 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,379 indicative	2,061 indicative
Census households	1,011	891
Under 15 (Census)	15%	13%
65+ (Census)	24%	27%
Area	8.28 km²	1.9 km²
People per km²	293	1,132
Reports filed	3,284	2,456
Rank on the roll	45th of 108	57th of 108
Reports per km²	397	1,293
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2017-08-14 14 reports	2022-11-17 20 reports
Crashes on record	66 3 fatal · 16 serious	48 1 fatal · 13 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	103 biggest M6.2	18 biggest M6.0
Of the outline, red-zoned	8.3% 69 ha	5.7% 11 ha
The 2011 grade	TC2 6.1% of the outline	TC2 17.3% of the outline
Flooded on record	5.2% 1 event	46.9% 2 events
The sea’s reach	1% of the outline	24% of the outline
Slope-hazard bands	37% of the outline +50% broad overlay	14% of the outline +55% broad overlay
The remembered ground	2% of the outline +7% silent-file	100% of the outline
The wild ledger	—	2% of the outline
The kept view	63% of the outline +63% outstanding	23% of the outline +20% outstanding
The waiting water	0% high-hazard · 4% managed	3% high-hazard · 18% managed
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	77 reaches (Bridle Path Waterway, Whites Waterway) · 6% setback strips	22 reaches (Glenstrae Stream Drain, Balmoral Drain) · 9% setback strips · held edge
The allowed shape	–	1% under density overlays · Hills
The rebuild’s receipts	1,593 frames filed · 2010–2017	2,207 frames filed · 2010–2017
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway	0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway
The remembered names	4 plaques · Heathcote Domain, Martindales Reserve No. 2	15 plaques · Barnett Park Sports Grounds, Redcliffs Public Library
The rules on the ground	23 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga	8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	4 parcels 2 current	7 parcels 2 current
Made ground on file	124 parcels 2 unvouched	88 parcels 3 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	5,632 rocks 3,375 fell · 279 wobble easy	242 rocks 234 fell
Cleanups on file	2 parcels none verified	1 parcel none verified
The model’s verdict	unlikely 76% of the outline	unlikely 68% of the outline · 2 free-face flags
Engineered defences	96 defences 1 rated poor	1 defence none rated poor
The canopy	763 trees 11 veterans · 219 remembered felled	396 trees no veterans · 159 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Rural Port Hills 33% of the outline · 12% residential	Residential Hills 42% 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	–	6% of the outline 13 matters · section 6
The listed city	1 scheduled item 1 highly significant	3 scheduled items 2 highly significant
The usual complaints	Graffiti 566 · Water Leak 383 · Roading/Streets 376	Water Leak 471 · Graffiti 208 · Roading/Streets 192
Schools	1	1
Parks	15	11
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	3	1
Bus stops	25	8
Bus routes through	2	2
Heritage places	3	4

Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Heathcote Valley's page · Redcliffs's page

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Heathcote Valley and Redcliffs?

Heathcote Valley counts 2,430 people (2023) to Redcliffs's 2,150; Heathcote Valley covers 8.28 km², Redcliffs 1.9 km²; the record holds 3,284 reports for Heathcote Valley and 2,456 for Redcliffs.

Which has more heritage places, Heathcote Valley or Redcliffs?

Redcliffs, 4 on the heritage register to the other’s 3.

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.