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
| Middleton | Sockburn | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 230 2023 | 4,680 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 204 indicative | 4,488 indicative |
| Census households | 66 | 1,572 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 3% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 4% | — |
| Area | 1.47 km² | 2.67 km² |
| People per km² | 156 | 1,753 |
| Reports filed | 1,987 | 4,511 |
| Rank on the roll | 64th of 108 | 35th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,352 | 1,690 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-08-28 51 reports | 2018-05-10 38 reports |
| Crashes on record | 72 1 fatal · 16 serious | 442 8 fatal · 74 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | 1 biggest M3.0 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 1.6% of the outline | TC1 0.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | — | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | — |
| The kept view | — | — |
| The waiting water | — | — |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 21 reaches (Curlett Stream, Curlett Stream Branch) · 3% setback strips | 17 reaches (Curlett Stream, Paparua Stream) · 2% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | – | 3% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 745 frames filed · 2010–2015 | 826 frames filed · 2010–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Little River Link, Nor'West Arc | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · South Express |
| The remembered names | – | 1 plaque · Chokebore Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 12 parcels 8 current | 16 parcels 7 current |
| Made ground on file | 17 parcels all vouched or natural | 72 parcels 6 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 1 verified | 2 parcels 2 verified |
| The model’s verdict | possible 97% of the outline | low 74% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 615 trees 1 veteran · 159 remembered felled | 931 trees 4 veterans · 480 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Industrial Heavy 55% of the outline | Residential Suburban 42% of the outline · 46% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 31% of the outline 4 designations · movement | 10% of the outline 6 designations · learning, movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 1% of the outline 3 matters · heritage |
| The listed city | – | 5 scheduled items 3 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 506 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 232 · Roading/Streets 221 | Graffiti 777 · Dumped Rubbish 716 · Roading/Streets 402 |
| Schools | 0 | 4 |
| Parks | 1 | 12 |
| Facilities | 0 | 1 |
| Tracks | 8 | 7 |
| Bus stops | 8 | 38 |
| Bus routes through | 1 | 6 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 6 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Middleton's page · Sockburn's page
Questions, answered briefly
Middleton counts 230 people (2023) to Sockburn's 4,680; Middleton covers 1.47 km², Sockburn 2.67 km²; the record holds 1,987 reports for Middleton and 4,511 for Sockburn.
Sockburn, 6 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.