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

	Hornby	Templeton
Population	8,760 2023	1,910 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,949 indicative	1,830 indicative
Census households	1,101	690
Under 15 (Census)	—	18%
65+ (Census)	—	17%
Area	5.1 km²	29.25 km²
People per km²	1,718	65
Reports filed	7,021	1,516
Rank on the roll	17th of 108	68th of 108
Reports per km²	1,377	52
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2022-09-30 34 reports	2025-08-25 15 reports
Crashes on record	461 3 fatal · 80 serious	155 5 fatal · 36 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	3 biggest M4.1	8 biggest M3.8
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	—
The 2011 grade	TC1 49.0% of the outline	TC1 1.9% of the outline
Flooded on record	—	—
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	—	—
The remembered ground	—	—
The wild ledger	1% of the outline	—
The kept view	—	—
The waiting water	—	—
The quiet lines	all of the outline · bird-strike buffer	88% of the outline · 47% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer
The drawn water	11 reaches (Waterloo Road Drain, Awatea Stream) · 1% setback strips	8 reaches (Templeton Outfall, Kirk Road Drain)
The allowed shape	18% under density overlays · Medium Density	–
The rebuild’s receipts	957 frames filed · 2011–2014	38 frames filed · 2010–2014
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Little River Link, South Express	0.0 km inside the outline · South Express
The remembered names	2 plaques · Pathways Home, Denton Park	6 plaques · Yaldhurst Cemetery, Templeton Domain
The rules on the ground	6 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga	3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	21 parcels 17 current	2 parcels none current
Made ground on file	92 parcels 7 unvouched	60 parcels 2 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	–	–
Cleanups on file	1 parcel none verified	–
The model’s verdict	low 93% of the outline	unlikely 80% of the outline
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	2,080 trees 9 veterans · 767 remembered felled	1,321 trees 16 veterans · 427 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Industrial Heavy 20% of the outline · 33% residential	Rural Urban Fringe 56% of the outline
The plan’s reservations	9% of the outline 7 designations · movement, learning	28% of the outline 3 designations · civic, movement
The plan’s exceptions	1% of the outline 1 matter · residential	–
The listed city	–	1 scheduled item none top-graded
The usual complaints	Graffiti 1,508 · Dumped Rubbish 756 · Roading/Streets 643	Dumped Rubbish 198 · Roading/Streets 185 · Rubbish/Recycling 134
Schools	4	1
Parks	16	13
Facilities	1	2
Tracks	16	1
Bus stops	44	10
Bus routes through	6	1
Heritage places	7	1

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

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Hornby and Templeton?

Hornby counts 8,760 people (2023) to Templeton's 1,910; Hornby covers 5.1 km², Templeton 29.25 km²; the record holds 7,021 reports for Hornby and 1,516 for Templeton.

Which has more heritage places, Hornby or Templeton?

Hornby, 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.