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 | Woolston | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,400 2023 | 11,120 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 1,401 indicative | 10,608 indicative |
| Census households | 549 | 4,371 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | 17% |
| 65+ (Census) | 25% | 16% |
| Area | 0.82 km² | 5.48 km² |
| People per km² | 1,707 | 2,029 |
| Reports filed | 3,162 | 16,613 |
| Rank on the roll | 46th of 108 | 3rd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 3,856 | 3,032 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2017-10-25 17 reports | 2026-08-29 62 reports |
| Crashes on record | 29 1 fatal · 8 serious | 338 6 fatal · 79 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 1 biggest M3.3 | 27 biggest M4.1 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 104.2% of the outline | TC3 20.0% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 26.3% 4 events | 25.6% 5 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | 27% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 3% of the outline | 5% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 4% of the outline | 7% of the outline |
| The kept view | 3% of the outline | 6% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 2% high-hazard · 19% managed | 1% high-hazard · 83% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 18 reaches (Jacksons Creek Lower, Heathcote / Opawaho River) · 18% setback strips · held edge | 118 reaches (Steamwharf Stream, Bells Creek) · 14% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 4% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition | 11% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 954 frames filed · 2010–2016 | 5,354 frames filed · 2007–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Ōpāwaho River | 0.0 km inside the outline · Heathcote Expressway, Rapanui Shag Rock +2 |
| The remembered names | 8 plaques · Risingholme Park, Hansen Park | 13 plaques · Woolston Park, Heathcote Quay Monuments |
| The rules on the ground | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 13 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 2 parcels 1 current | 49 parcels 21 current |
| Made ground on file | 55 parcels 11 unvouched | 252 parcels 28 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 1 verified | 14 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | high 52% of the outline · 9 free-face flags | medium 55% of the outline · 13 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,200 trees 25 veterans · 542 remembered felled | 2,709 trees 31 veterans · 1,255 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 52% of the outline · 55% residential | Residential Suburban 33% of the outline · 55% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 8% of the outline 3 designations · learning, movement | 4% of the outline 3 designations · movement, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 4% of the outline 4 matters · section 6 |
| The listed city | 4 scheduled items 1 highly significant | 9 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 828 · Parks 288 · Dumped Rubbish 269 | Dumped Rubbish 3,089 · Graffiti 2,836 · Rubbish/Recycling 1,665 |
| Schools | 3 | 5 |
| Parks | 4 | 27 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 12 | 30 |
| Bus stops | 7 | 42 |
| Bus routes through | 3 | 3 |
| Heritage places | 7 | 13 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Opawa's page · Woolston's page
Questions, answered briefly
Opawa counts 1,400 people (2023) to Woolston's 11,120; Opawa covers 0.82 km², Woolston 5.48 km²; the record holds 3,162 reports for Opawa and 16,613 for Woolston.
Woolston, 13 on the heritage register to the other’s 7.
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.