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	Waltham
Population	2,430 2023	4,460 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,373 indicative	2,175 indicative
Census households	936	999
Under 15 (Census)	17%	—
65+ (Census)	18%	—
Area	6.7 km²	1.77 km²
People per km²	363	2,520
Reports filed	2,992	9,547
Rank on the roll	50th of 108	12th of 108
Reports per km²	447	5,394
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2026-08-29 12 reports	2022-02-16 42 reports
Crashes on record	91 0 fatal · 29 serious	341 2 fatal · 81 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	52 biggest M4.9	1 biggest M3.9
Of the outline, red-zoned	0.8% 5 ha	—
The 2011 grade	TC2 6.3% of the outline	TC3 16.3% of the outline
Flooded on record	11.2% 4 events	1.9% 2 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	—
The wild ledger	1% of the outline	—
The kept view	61% of the outline +57% outstanding	—
The waiting water	1% high-hazard · 20% managed	0% high-hazard · 41% managed
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	90 reaches (Victory Drain, Popes Drain) · 15% setback strips · held edge	11 reaches (Jacksons Creek Lower, Jacksons Creek Lower Branch) · 1% setback strips
The allowed shape	–	39% under density overlays · Medium Density
The rebuild’s receipts	1,778 frames filed · 2009–2016	4,046 frames filed · 2009–2016
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline	0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway, Ōpāwaho River
The remembered names	5 plaques · Monro Playground, Heathcote Riverbank Tr South	10 plaques · Edmonds Factory Garden, Waltham Park
The rules on the ground	15 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga	13 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	11 parcels 4 current	51 parcels 36 current
Made ground on file	105 parcels 7 unvouched	32 parcels 11 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	923 rocks 612 fell · 73 wobble easy	–
Cleanups on file	2 parcels none verified	6 parcels none verified
The model’s verdict	unlikely 69% of the outline · 3 free-face flags	medium 64% of the outline · 3 free-face flags
Engineered defences	88 defences 6 rated poor	–
The canopy	983 trees 24 veterans · 432 remembered felled	965 trees 42 veterans · 635 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Open Space Natural 52% of the outline · 17% residential	Medium density residential zone 38% of the outline · 39% residential
The plan’s reservations	3% of the outline 2 designations · movement	16% of the outline 6 designations · movement, learning
The plan’s exceptions	–	5% of the outline 11 matters · residential, nps matter, heritage
The listed city	1 scheduled item none top-graded	5 scheduled items 1 highly significant
The usual complaints	Water Leak 395 · Roading/Streets 363 · Graffiti 252	Graffiti 2,232 · Dumped Rubbish 1,567 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 892
Schools	1	2
Parks	11	7
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	16	13
Bus stops	11	17
Bus routes through	1	6
Heritage places	7	6

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

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Hillsborough and Waltham?

Hillsborough counts 2,430 people (2023) to Waltham's 4,460; Hillsborough covers 6.7 km², Waltham 1.77 km²; the record holds 2,992 reports for Hillsborough and 9,547 for Waltham.

Which has more heritage places, Hillsborough or Waltham?

Hillsborough, 7 on the heritage register to the other’s 6.

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.