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
| Kainga | Spencerville | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 480 June 2025 | 790 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 759 indicative | 759 indicative |
| Census households | 264 | 264 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 19% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 13% | 13% |
| Area | 2.88 km² | 2.85 km² |
| People per km² | 167 | 277 |
| Reports filed | 406 | 369 |
| Rank on the roll | 91st of 108 | 93rd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 141 | 129 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2016 |
| Busiest day | 2020-09-04 11 reports | 2022-02-13 4 reports |
| Crashes on record | 48 2 fatal · 15 serious | 9 0 fatal · 5 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 7.6% of the outline | TC3 10.1% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | — | 45.8% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | 9% of the outline | 52% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | 35% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 13% of the outline | 41% of the outline |
| The kept view | 26% of the outline +26% outstanding | 73% of the outline +25% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 2% high-hazard · 37% managed | 12% high-hazard · 76% managed · 1 ponding |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 26 reaches (Northern Plant Drain, Northern Plant Drain Branch) · 17% setback strips · held edge | 6 reaches (Styx River, Lower Styx Drain South) · 5% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | – | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 140 frames filed · 2010–2013 | 218 frames filed · 2012–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | – |
| The remembered names | 2 plaques · Riverlea Recreation Reserve, Riverlea Estates Reserve | – |
| The rules on the ground | 1 drawn rule · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 5 parcels 5 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 17 parcels 1 unvouched | 27 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | – |
| The model’s verdict | possible 100% of the outline | possible 75% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 599 trees 58 veterans · 128 remembered felled | 278 trees no veterans · 225 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Industrial Heavy 29% of the outline | Rural Waimakariri 28% of the outline · 9% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 1% of the outline 1 designation · movement | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Dumped Rubbish 69 · Parks 53 · Graffiti 47 | Parks 47 · Dumped Rubbish 44 · Roading/Streets 24 |
| Schools | 0 | 0 |
| Parks | 4 | 4 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 0 | 0 |
| Bus stops | 4 | — |
| Bus routes through | 1 | — |
| Heritage places | 1 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Kainga's page · Spencerville's page
Questions, answered briefly
Kainga counts 480 people (June 2025) to Spencerville's 790; Kainga covers 2.88 km², Spencerville 2.85 km²; the record holds 406 reports for Kainga and 369 for Spencerville.
Even, 1 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.