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
| Hillmorton | Middleton | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 3,020 2023 | 230 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,847 indicative | 204 indicative |
| Census households | 1,110 | 66 |
| Under 15 (Census) | — | 3% |
| 65+ (Census) | — | 4% |
| Area | 2.98 km² | 1.47 km² |
| People per km² | 1,013 | 156 |
| Reports filed | 3,928 | 1,987 |
| Rank on the roll | 39th of 108 | 64th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,318 | 1,352 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2019-05-20 21 reports | 2023-08-28 51 reports |
| Crashes on record | 185 3 fatal · 36 serious | 72 1 fatal · 16 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 1 biggest M3.2 | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 5.4% of the outline | TC2 1.6% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 1.5% 3 events | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 2% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 7% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 8% of the outline | — |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 3% managed | — |
| The quiet lines | 94% of the outline · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 24 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Paparua Stream) · 7% setback strips · held edge | 21 reaches (Curlett Stream, Curlett Stream Branch) · 3% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 18% under density overlays · Medium Density | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,100 frames filed · 2011–2016 | 745 frames filed · 2010–2015 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Little River Link, Nor'West Arc | 0.0 km inside the outline · Little River Link, Nor'West Arc |
| The remembered names | 6 plaques · Canterbury Agricultural Park, Pavilion Park | – |
| The rules on the ground | 11 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 2 parcels 2 current | 12 parcels 8 current |
| Made ground on file | 58 parcels 5 unvouched | 17 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 5 parcels none verified | 2 parcels 1 verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 53% of the outline | possible 97% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 2,528 trees 9 veterans · 836 remembered felled | 615 trees 1 veteran · 159 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 38% of the outline · 25% residential | Industrial Heavy 55% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | 10% of the outline 4 designations · movement, learning | 31% of the outline 4 designations · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | 2% of the outline 2 matters · residential, section 6 | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 663 · Roading/Streets 348 · Dumped Rubbish 267 | Graffiti 506 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 232 · Roading/Streets 221 |
| Schools | 1 | 0 |
| Parks | 12 | 1 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 12 | 8 |
| Bus stops | 14 | 8 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 2 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Hillmorton's page · Middleton's page
Questions, answered briefly
Hillmorton counts 3,020 people (2023) to Middleton's 230; Hillmorton covers 2.98 km², Middleton 1.47 km²; the record holds 3,928 reports for Hillmorton and 1,987 for Middleton.
Hillmorton, 2 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.