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
| Lyttelton | Port Levy | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 3,220 June 2025 | — |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 3,117 indicative | 651 indicative |
| Census households | 1,353 | 276 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 15% |
| 65+ (Census) | 17% | 27% |
| Area | 6.27 km² | 83.13 km² |
| People per km² | 514 | — |
| Reports filed | 5,530 | 84 |
| Rank on the roll | 23rd of 108 | 100th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 882 | 1 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2026-01-07 72 reports | 2019-06-21 7 reports |
| Crashes on record | 77 2 fatal · 22 serious | 5 1 fatal · 1 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 28 biggest M4.1 | 87 biggest M4.9 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 1.8% 11 ha | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | 1.0% 1 event | 16.1% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | 13% of the outline | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | 26% of the outline +57% broad overlay | 0% of the outline +81% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 85% of the outline | 36% of the outline +19% silent-file |
| The wild ledger | — | 3% of the outline +3% identified only |
| The kept view | 42% of the outline +24% outstanding | 82% of the outline +15% outstanding · 5 ridgelines |
| The waiting water | — | — |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 14 reaches · 4% setback strips · held edge | 67 reaches (Owhetoro Stream, Te Kawa Stream) · 1% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 0% under density overlays | 0% under density overlays |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,646 frames filed · 2010–2017 | 5 frames filed |
| The pedal network | – | – |
| The remembered names | 20 plaques · Sumner Road Gardens, Oxford Street Reserve | 2 plaques · Port Levy Former School Site |
| The rules on the ground | 18 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga | 4 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 10 parcels 9 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 13 parcels 3 unvouched | – |
| Surveyed rocks | 1,023 rocks 612 fell · 48 wobble easy | – |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 1% of the outline | – |
| Engineered defences | 45 defences 4 rated poor | – |
| The canopy | 179 trees 5 veterans · 51 remembered felled | 1 tree 1 veteran |
| The plan’s word | Open Space Natural 27% of the outline · 15% residential | Rural Banks Peninsula 73% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | 4% of the outline 5 designations · movement, pipes | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | 1% of the outline 1 matter · heritage | – |
| The listed city | 74 scheduled items 15 highly significant | 2 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 1,256 · Water Leak 651 · Roading/Streets 588 | Roading/Streets 26 · Parks 12 · Trees - General 4 |
| Schools | 1 | 0 |
| Parks | 16 | 2 |
| Facilities | 4 | 5 |
| Tracks | 2 | 0 |
| Bus stops | 11 | — |
| Bus routes through | 3 | — |
| Heritage places | 75 | 3 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Lyttelton's page · Port Levy's page
Questions, answered briefly
Lyttelton covers 6.27 km², Port Levy 83.13 km²; the record holds 5,530 reports for Lyttelton and 84 for Port Levy.
Lyttelton, 75 on the heritage register to the other’s 3.
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.