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
| Le Bons Bay | Little River | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | — | 1,280 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 651 indicative | 1,287 indicative |
| Census households | 276 | 516 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 27% | — |
| Area | 66.55 km² | 194.9 km² |
| People per km² | — | 7 |
| Reports filed | 41 | 643 |
| Rank on the roll | 106th of 108 | 83rd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1 | 3 |
| First report on record | 2017 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2025-04-28 2 reports | 2023-07-23 8 reports |
| Crashes on record | 1 0 fatal · 0 serious | 92 5 fatal · 35 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | 4 biggest M4.0 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | 10.1% 1 event | 17.7% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | 0% of the outline +82% broad overlay | 0% of the outline +81% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline | 13% of the outline +5% silent-file |
| The wild ledger | 1% of the outline +1% identified only | 10% of the outline +4% identified only |
| The kept view | 84% of the outline +25% outstanding · 3 ridgelines | 89% of the outline +16% outstanding · 3 ridgelines |
| The waiting water | — | 0% high-hazard · 2% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 175 reaches (Le Bons Stream, Hughes Drain) · 6% setback strips | 419 reaches (Opuahou Stream, Okuti River) · 9% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 0% under density overlays | 0% under density overlays |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 5 frames filed | 11 frames filed · 2011–2012 |
| The pedal network | – | – |
| The remembered names | 2 plaques · Le Bons Bay Cemetery, Le Bons Bay Domain | 16 plaques · Heritage Park Little River, Little River Cemetery |
| The rules on the ground | 6 drawn rules · Te Runanga o Koukourarata | 15 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | 2 parcels none current |
| Made ground on file | 1 parcel all vouched or natural | 4 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | 3 rocks 1 fell |
| Cleanups on file | – | – |
| The model’s verdict | – | – |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 41 trees 13 veterans · 4 remembered felled | 485 trees 115 veterans · 140 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Banks Peninsula 80% of the outline | Rural Banks Peninsula 76% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | – | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 1 scheduled item none top-graded | 5 scheduled items none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Public Toilet 5 · Parks 5 · Wastewater/Stormwater 3 | Roading/Streets 66 · Damaged Road 64 · Water Leak 39 |
| Schools | 0 | 1 |
| Parks | 2 | 13 |
| Facilities | 2 | 6 |
| Tracks | 0 | 0 |
| Bus stops | — | — |
| Bus routes through | — | — |
| Heritage places | 0 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Le Bons Bay's page · Little River's page
Questions, answered briefly
Le Bons Bay covers 66.55 km², Little River 194.9 km²; the record holds 41 reports for Le Bons Bay and 643 for Little River.
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.