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
| Islington | Templeton | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,040 2023 | 1,910 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 954 indicative | 1,830 indicative |
| Census households | 363 | 690 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 18% |
| 65+ (Census) | 15% | 17% |
| Area | 6.15 km² | 29.25 km² |
| People per km² | 169 | 65 |
| Reports filed | 1,892 | 1,516 |
| Rank on the roll | 66th of 108 | 68th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 308 | 52 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2024-10-31 15 reports | 2025-08-25 15 reports |
| Crashes on record | 90 2 fatal · 19 serious | 155 5 fatal · 36 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 3 biggest M4.2 | 8 biggest M3.8 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | TC1 1.9% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | — | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | 10% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | — | — |
| The waiting water | — | — |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · 50% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer | 88% of the outline · 47% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | – | 8 reaches (Templeton Outfall, Kirk Road Drain) |
| The allowed shape | 2% under density overlays · Suburban | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 327 frames filed · 2012–2014 | 38 frames filed · 2010–2014 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · South Express | 0.0 km inside the outline · South Express |
| The remembered names | 1 plaque · Little Waterloo Park | 6 plaques · Yaldhurst Cemetery, Templeton Domain |
| The rules on the ground | 2 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 30 parcels 19 current | 2 parcels none current |
| Made ground on file | 63 parcels 7 unvouched | 60 parcels 2 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 3 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | low 70% of the outline | unlikely 80% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 420 trees 1 veteran · 204 remembered felled | 1,321 trees 16 veterans · 427 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Urban Fringe 23% of the outline · 12% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 56% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | 15% of the outline 5 designations · power & signal, movement | 28% of the outline 3 designations · civic, movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | 1% of the outline 1 matter · infrastructure | – |
| The listed city | – | 1 scheduled item none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Dumped Rubbish 405 · Roading/Streets 244 · Graffiti 199 | Dumped Rubbish 198 · Roading/Streets 185 · Rubbish/Recycling 134 |
| Schools | 0 | 1 |
| Parks | 8 | 13 |
| Facilities | 0 | 2 |
| Tracks | 2 | 1 |
| Bus stops | 8 | 10 |
| Bus routes through | 2 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Islington's page · Templeton's page
Questions, answered briefly
Islington counts 1,040 people (2023) to Templeton's 1,910; Islington covers 6.15 km², Templeton 29.25 km²; the record holds 1,892 reports for Islington and 1,516 for Templeton.
Templeton, 1 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.