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
| Parklands | Spencerville | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 10,420 2023 | 790 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 10,152 indicative | 759 indicative |
| Census households | 3,627 | 264 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 20% | 19% |
| 65+ (Census) | 15% | 13% |
| Area | 5.62 km² | 2.85 km² |
| People per km² | 1,854 | 277 |
| Reports filed | 4,955 | 369 |
| Rank on the roll | 29th of 108 | 93rd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 882 | 129 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2016 |
| Busiest day | 2020-08-25 25 reports | 2022-02-13 4 reports |
| Crashes on record | 94 0 fatal · 18 serious | 9 0 fatal · 5 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 4 biggest M3.5 | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 28.2% of the outline | TC3 10.1% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 6.8% 1 event | 45.8% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | 52% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 4% of the outline | 35% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | — | 41% of the outline |
| The kept view | — | 73% of the outline +25% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 6% managed | 12% high-hazard · 76% managed · 1 ponding |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 26 reaches (Putake Drain, Snellings Drain) · 1% setback strips | 6 reaches (Styx River, Lower Styx Drain South) · 5% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 2% under density overlays · Suburban | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 3,945 frames filed · 2011–2017 | 218 frames filed · 2012–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | – |
| The remembered names | 8 plaques · Parklands Reserve, Alpine View Drainage Reserve | – |
| The rules on the ground | 5 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 8 parcels 4 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 244 parcels 2 unvouched | 27 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | high 37% of the outline · 1 free-face flag | possible 75% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 3,118 trees 11 veterans · 1,611 remembered felled | 278 trees no veterans · 225 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 40% of the outline · 43% residential | Rural Waimakariri 28% of the outline · 9% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | – | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | – | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 735 · Parks 537 · Roading/Streets 526 | Parks 47 · Dumped Rubbish 44 · Roading/Streets 24 |
| Schools | 2 | 0 |
| Parks | 37 | 4 |
| Facilities | 1 | 0 |
| Tracks | 8 | 0 |
| Bus stops | 40 | — |
| Bus routes through | 3 | — |
| Heritage places | 0 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Parklands's page · Spencerville's page
Questions, answered briefly
Parklands counts 10,420 people (2023) to Spencerville's 790; Parklands covers 5.62 km², Spencerville 2.85 km²; the record holds 4,955 reports for Parklands and 369 for Spencerville.
Spencerville, 1 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.