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	Saint Martins
Population	2,430 2023	—
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,373 indicative	2,802 indicative
Census households	936	1,149
Under 15 (Census)	17%	19%
65+ (Census)	18%	18%
Area	6.7 km²	1.15 km²
People per km²	363	—
Reports filed	2,992	3,384
Rank on the roll	50th of 108	43rd of 108
Reports per km²	447	2,943
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2026-08-29 12 reports	2022-09-12 18 reports
Crashes on record	91 0 fatal · 29 serious	77 0 fatal · 12 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	52 biggest M4.9	4 biggest M3.9
Of the outline, red-zoned	0.8% 5 ha	—
The 2011 grade	TC2 6.3% of the outline	TC2 70.9% of the outline
Flooded on record	11.2% 4 events	10.1% 4 events
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	10% of the outline +63% broad overlay	4% of the outline +4% broad overlay
The remembered ground	1% of the outline +13% silent-file	2% of the outline
The wild ledger	1% of the outline	2% of the outline
The kept view	61% of the outline +57% outstanding	2% of the outline
The waiting water	1% high-hazard · 20% managed	3% high-hazard · 15% managed
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	90 reaches (Victory Drain, Popes Drain) · 15% setback strips · held edge	31 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Victory Drain Branch No 1) · 9% setback strips
The allowed shape	–	9% under density overlays · Suburban
The rebuild’s receipts	1,778 frames filed · 2009–2016	2,517 frames filed · 2010–2016
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline	0.0 km inside the outline · Southern Lights
The remembered names	5 plaques · Monro Playground, Heathcote Riverbank Tr South	5 plaques · Heathcote Riverbank Tr South, St Martins Park
The rules on the ground	15 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga	8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	11 parcels 4 current	6 parcels 2 current
Made ground on file	105 parcels 7 unvouched	44 parcels 8 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	923 rocks 612 fell · 73 wobble easy	58 rocks 53 fell
Cleanups on file	2 parcels none verified	7 parcels 7 verified
The model’s verdict	unlikely 69% of the outline · 3 free-face flags	medium 43% of the outline · 4 free-face flags
Engineered defences	88 defences 6 rated poor	–
The canopy	983 trees 24 veterans · 432 remembered felled	891 trees 7 veterans · 459 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Open Space Natural 52% of the outline · 17% residential	Residential Suburban 54% of the outline · 72% residential
The plan’s reservations	3% of the outline 2 designations · movement	4% of the outline 3 designations · learning
The plan’s exceptions	–	–
The listed city	1 scheduled item none top-graded	1 scheduled item none top-graded
The usual complaints	Water Leak 395 · Roading/Streets 363 · Graffiti 252	Graffiti 680 · Water Leak 552 · Roading/Streets 291
Schools	1	2
Parks	11	3
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	16	16
Bus stops	11	18
Bus routes through	1	3
Heritage places	7	1

Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Hillsborough's page · Saint Martins's page

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Hillsborough and Saint Martins?

Hillsborough covers 6.7 km², Saint Martins 1.15 km²; the record holds 2,992 reports for Hillsborough and 3,384 for Saint Martins.

Which has more heritage places, Hillsborough or Saint Martins?

Hillsborough, 7 on the heritage register to the other’s 1.

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.