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
| Hillsborough | Opawa | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,430 2023 | 1,400 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,373 indicative | 1,401 indicative |
| Census households | 936 | 549 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 17% | 15% |
| 65+ (Census) | 18% | 25% |
| Area | 6.7 km² | 0.82 km² |
| People per km² | 363 | 1,707 |
| Reports filed | 2,992 | 3,162 |
| Rank on the roll | 50th of 108 | 46th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 447 | 3,856 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2026-08-29 12 reports | 2017-10-25 17 reports |
| Crashes on record | 91 0 fatal · 29 serious | 29 1 fatal · 8 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 52 biggest M4.9 | 1 biggest M3.3 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 0.8% 5 ha | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 6.3% of the outline | TC3 104.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 11.2% 4 events | 26.3% 4 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | 10% of the outline +63% broad overlay | — |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline +13% silent-file | 3% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 1% of the outline | 4% of the outline |
| The kept view | 61% of the outline +57% outstanding | 3% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 1% high-hazard · 20% managed | 2% high-hazard · 19% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 90 reaches (Victory Drain, Popes Drain) · 15% setback strips · held edge | 18 reaches (Jacksons Creek Lower, Heathcote / Opawaho River) · 18% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | 4% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,778 frames filed · 2009–2016 | 954 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline · Ōpāwaho River |
| The remembered names | 5 plaques · Monro Playground, Heathcote Riverbank Tr South | 8 plaques · Risingholme Park, Hansen Park |
| The rules on the ground | 15 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 11 parcels 4 current | 2 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 105 parcels 7 unvouched | 55 parcels 11 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | 923 rocks 612 fell · 73 wobble easy | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels none verified | 2 parcels 1 verified |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 69% of the outline · 3 free-face flags | high 52% of the outline · 9 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | 88 defences 6 rated poor | – |
| The canopy | 983 trees 24 veterans · 432 remembered felled | 1,200 trees 25 veterans · 542 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Natural 52% of the outline · 17% residential | Residential Suburban 52% of the outline · 55% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 3% of the outline 2 designations · movement | 8% of the outline 3 designations · learning, movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | 4 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Water Leak 395 · Roading/Streets 363 · Graffiti 252 | Graffiti 828 · Parks 288 · Dumped Rubbish 269 |
| Schools | 1 | 3 |
| Parks | 11 | 4 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 16 | 12 |
| Bus stops | 11 | 7 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 3 |
| Heritage places | 7 | 7 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Hillsborough's page · Opawa's page
Questions, answered briefly
Hillsborough counts 2,430 people (2023) to Opawa's 1,400; Hillsborough covers 6.7 km², Opawa 0.82 km²; the record holds 2,992 reports for Hillsborough and 3,162 for Opawa.
Even, 7 each on the heritage register.
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.