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
| Mairehau | Merivale | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 7,100 2023 | 5,560 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 7,053 indicative | 5,340 indicative |
| Census households | 2,670 | 2,217 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 18% | 15% |
| 65+ (Census) | 17% | 21% |
| Area | 4.53 km² | 2.08 km² |
| People per km² | 1,567 | 2,673 |
| Reports filed | 6,750 | 4,878 |
| Rank on the roll | 19th of 108 | 30th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,490 | 2,345 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2016-04-21 57 reports | 2023-07-19 34 reports |
| Crashes on record | 269 4 fatal · 44 serious | 284 0 fatal · 58 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 77.9% of the outline | TC2 133.9% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 38.9% 2 events | 7.4% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | — |
| The kept view | — | — |
| The waiting water | 9% high-hazard · 65% managed · 5 ponding | 0% high-hazard · 55% managed |
| The quiet lines | 72% of the outline · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 173 reaches (Dudley Creek, Winters Road Drain) · 7% setback strips | 39 reaches (Wilkins Drain, Cross Stream) · 4% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 7% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition | 37% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,710 frames filed · 2001–2017 | 1,697 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline · Northern Line |
| The remembered names | 1 plaque · Walter Park | 7 plaques · Elmwood Park, Millbrook Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 20 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 10 parcels 1 current | 2 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 127 parcels 9 unvouched | 150 parcels 2 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 7 parcels 1 verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | medium 51% of the outline · 3 free-face flags | medium 68% of the outline · 13 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,656 trees 6 veterans · 751 remembered felled | 1,195 trees 74 veterans · 520 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 42% of the outline · 57% residential | Residential Suburban 31% of the outline · 70% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 23% of the outline 11 designations · pipes, movement, learning | 4% of the outline 3 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 1% of the outline 2 matters · heritage |
| The listed city | – | 24 scheduled items 2 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 1,308 · Water Leak 757 · Roading/Streets 638 | Graffiti 768 · Roading/Streets 654 · Water Leak 520 |
| Schools | 1 | 6 |
| Parks | 11 | 6 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 18 | 10 |
| Bus stops | 32 | 33 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 5 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 33 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Mairehau's page · Merivale's page
Questions, answered briefly
Mairehau counts 7,100 people (2023) to Merivale's 5,560; Mairehau covers 4.53 km², Merivale 2.08 km²; the record holds 6,750 reports for Mairehau and 4,878 for Merivale.
Merivale, 33 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.