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
| Port Levy | Scarborough | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | — | — |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 651 indicative | 3,414 indicative |
| Census households | 276 | 1,344 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 15% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 27% | — |
| Area | 83.13 km² | 0.69 km² |
| People per km² | — | — |
| Reports filed | 84 | 780 |
| Rank on the roll | 100th of 108 | 82nd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1 | 1,130 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2019-06-21 7 reports | 2022-08-29 12 reports |
| Crashes on record | 5 1 fatal · 1 serious | 3 0 fatal · 2 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 87 biggest M4.9 | 5 biggest M4.2 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | 4.7% 3 ha |
| The 2011 grade | — | — |
| Flooded on record | 16.1% 1 event | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | 1% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | 0% of the outline +81% broad overlay | 9% of the outline +85% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 36% of the outline +19% silent-file | 100% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 3% of the outline +3% identified only | — |
| The kept view | 82% of the outline +15% outstanding · 5 ridgelines | 19% of the outline +12% outstanding |
| The waiting water | — | 0% high-hazard · 1% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 67 reaches (Owhetoro Stream, Te Kawa Stream) · 1% setback strips | 17 reaches (Scarborough Outfall, Highview Lane Drain) · 5% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 0% under density overlays | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 5 frames filed | 132 frames filed · 2012–2015 |
| The pedal network | – | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway |
| The remembered names | 2 plaques · Port Levy Former School Site | 13 plaques · Nicholson Park, Whitewash Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 4 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga | 10 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | – | – |
| Made ground on file | – | 23 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | 457 rocks 381 fell · 31 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | – | – |
| The model’s verdict | – | unlikely 31% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1 tree 1 veteran | 280 trees 2 veterans · 123 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Rural Banks Peninsula 73% of the outline | Residential Hills 60% of the outline · 60% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | – | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 2 scheduled items 1 highly significant | – |
| The usual complaints | Roading/Streets 26 · Parks 12 · Trees - General 4 | Water Leak 96 · Parks 79 · Roading/Streets 78 |
| Schools | 0 | 0 |
| Parks | 2 | 4 |
| Facilities | 5 | 0 |
| Tracks | 0 | 0 |
| Bus stops | — | — |
| Bus routes through | — | — |
| Heritage places | 3 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Port Levy's page · Scarborough's page
Questions, answered briefly
Port Levy covers 83.13 km², Scarborough 0.69 km²; the record holds 84 reports for Port Levy and 780 for Scarborough.
Port Levy, 3 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.