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
| Opawa | Saint Martins | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,400 2023 | — |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 1,401 indicative | 2,802 indicative |
| Census households | 549 | 1,149 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 25% | 18% |
| Area | 0.82 km² | 1.15 km² |
| People per km² | 1,707 | — |
| Reports filed | 3,162 | 3,384 |
| Rank on the roll | 46th of 108 | 43rd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 3,856 | 2,943 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-10-25 17 reports | 2022-09-12 18 reports |
| Crashes on record | 29 1 fatal · 8 serious | 76 0 fatal · 12 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 1 biggest M3.3 | 4 biggest M3.9 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 104.2% of the outline | TC2 70.9% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 26.3% 4 events | 10.1% 4 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | 4% of the outline +4% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 3% of the outline | 2% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 4% of the outline | 2% of the outline |
| The kept view | 3% of the outline | 2% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 2% high-hazard · 19% managed | 3% high-hazard · 15% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 18 reaches (Jacksons Creek Lower, Heathcote / Opawaho River) · 18% setback strips · held edge | 31 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Victory Drain Branch No 1) · 9% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 4% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition | 9% under density overlays · Suburban |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 954 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 2,517 frames filed · 2010–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Ōpāwaho River | 0.0 km inside the outline · Southern Lights |
| The remembered names | 8 plaques · Risingholme Park, Hansen Park | 5 plaques · Heathcote Riverbank Tr South, St Martins Park |
| The rules on the ground | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 2 parcels 1 current | 6 parcels 2 current |
| Made ground on file | 55 parcels 11 unvouched | 44 parcels 8 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | 58 rocks 53 fell |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 1 verified | 7 parcels 7 verified |
| The model’s verdict | high 52% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | medium 43% of the outline · 4 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,200 trees 25 veterans · 542 remembered felled | 891 trees 7 veterans · 459 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 52% of the outline · 55% residential | Residential Suburban 54% of the outline · 72% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 8% of the outline 3 designations · learning, movement | 4% of the outline 3 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 4 scheduled items 1 highly significant | 1 scheduled item none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 828 · Parks 288 · Dumped Rubbish 269 | Graffiti 680 · Water Leak 552 · Roading/Streets 291 |
| Schools | 3 | 2 |
| Parks | 4 | 3 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 12 | 16 |
| Bus stops | 7 | 18 |
| Bus routes through | 3 | 3 |
| Heritage places | 7 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Opawa's page · Saint Martins's page
Questions, answered briefly
Opawa covers 0.82 km², Saint Martins 1.15 km²; the record holds 3,162 reports for Opawa and 3,384 for Saint Martins.
Opawa, 7 on the heritage register to the other’s 1.
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.