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
| Merivale | Saint Albans | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 5,560 2023 | 15,010 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 5,340 indicative | 8,373 indicative |
| Census households | 2,217 | 3,834 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 12% |
| 65+ (Census) | 21% | 14% |
| Area | 2.08 km² | 3.97 km² |
| People per km² | 2,673 | 3,781 |
| Reports filed | 4,878 | 11,247 |
| Rank on the roll | 30th of 108 | 10th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 2,345 | 2,833 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-07-19 34 reports | 2016-01-25 31 reports |
| Crashes on record | 284 0 fatal · 58 serious | 390 4 fatal · 73 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 133.9% of the outline | TC3 133.6% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 7.4% 2 events | 15.9% 4 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | — |
| The kept view | — | — |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 55% managed | 0% high-hazard · 55% managed |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer | 88% of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 39 reaches (Wilkins Drain, Cross Stream) · 4% setback strips · held edge | 161 reaches (St Albans Creek, Dudley Creek) · 6% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 37% under density overlays · Medium Density | 52% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,697 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 4,413 frames filed · 2009–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Northern Line | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Papanui Parallel |
| The remembered names | 7 plaques · Elmwood Park, Millbrook Reserve | 5 plaques · Abberley Park, English Park Stadium |
| The rules on the ground | 20 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 14 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 2 parcels 1 current | 4 parcels 2 current |
| Made ground on file | 150 parcels 2 unvouched | 155 parcels 10 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | – | 3 parcels 2 verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 68% of the outline · 13 free-face flags | medium 61% of the outline · 5 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,195 trees 74 veterans · 520 remembered felled | 2,510 trees 68 veterans · 1,175 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 31% of the outline · 70% residential | Medium density residential zone 48% of the outline · 72% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 4% of the outline 3 designations · learning | 2% of the outline 2 designations · movement, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 1% of the outline 2 matters · heritage | 5% of the outline 4 matters · heritage, residential |
| The listed city | 24 scheduled items 2 highly significant | 12 scheduled items 2 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 768 · Roading/Streets 654 · Water Leak 520 | Graffiti 2,008 · Roading/Streets 1,553 · Water Leak 1,268 |
| Schools | 6 | 2 |
| Parks | 6 | 9 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 10 | 15 |
| Bus stops | 33 | 34 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 4 |
| Heritage places | 33 | 22 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Merivale's page · Saint Albans's page
Questions, answered briefly
Merivale counts 5,560 people (2023) to Saint Albans's 15,010; Merivale covers 2.08 km², Saint Albans 3.97 km²; the record holds 4,878 reports for Merivale and 11,247 for Saint Albans.
Merivale, 33 on the heritage register to the other’s 22.
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.