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
| Redcliffs | Sumner | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,150 2023 | 3,490 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 2,061 indicative | 3,414 indicative |
| Census households | 891 | 1,344 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 13% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 27% | — |
| Area | 1.9 km² | 11.99 km² |
| People per km² | 1,132 | 291 |
| Reports filed | 2,456 | 4,632 |
| Rank on the roll | 57th of 108 | 32nd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 1,293 | 386 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2022-11-17 20 reports | 2023-06-20 49 reports |
| Crashes on record | 48 1 fatal · 13 serious | 75 4 fatal · 22 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 18 biggest M6.0 | 101 biggest M5.3 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | 5.7% 11 ha | 2.5% 30 ha |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 17.3% of the outline | TC2 6.3% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 46.9% 2 events | 2.5% 2 events |
| The sea’s reach | 24% of the outline | 10% of the outline |
| Slope-hazard bands | 14% of the outline +55% broad overlay | 10% of the outline +80% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 100% of the outline | 55% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 2% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 23% of the outline +20% outstanding | 83% of the outline +82% outstanding |
| The waiting water | 3% high-hazard · 18% managed | 0% high-hazard · 6% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | – |
| The drawn water | 22 reaches (Glenstrae Stream Drain, Balmoral Drain) · 9% setback strips · held edge | 87 reaches (Sumner Stream, Richmond Hill Waterway) · 8% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 1% under density overlays · Hills | 0% under density overlays · 9 bach settlements |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,207 frames filed · 2010–2017 | 1,042 frames filed · 2011–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway | 0.0 km inside the outline · Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway |
| The remembered names | 15 plaques · Barnett Park Sports Grounds, Redcliffs Public Library | 24 plaques · Scarborough Park, Port Hills 11 Rrz Land |
| The rules on the ground | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 29 drawn rules · Rapaki Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 7 parcels 2 current | 2 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 88 parcels 3 unvouched | 54 parcels 2 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | 242 rocks 234 fell | 6,354 rocks 3,792 fell · 1,176 wobble easy |
| Cleanups on file | 1 parcel none verified | 1 parcel none verified |
| The model’s verdict | unlikely 68% of the outline · 2 free-face flags | unlikely 43% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | 1 defence none rated poor | 47 defences none rated poor |
| The canopy | 396 trees no veterans · 159 remembered felled | 683 trees 5 veterans · 444 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Hills 42% of the outline · 59% residential | Open Space Natural 68% of the outline · 11% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 1% of the outline 1 designation · learning | 1% of the outline 2 designations · power & signal, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 6% of the outline 13 matters · section 6 | 1% of the outline 3 matters · section 6 |
| The listed city | 3 scheduled items 2 highly significant | 13 scheduled items 2 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Water Leak 471 · Graffiti 208 · Roading/Streets 192 | Parks 483 · Graffiti 479 · Water Leak 466 |
| Schools | 1 | 3 |
| Parks | 11 | 13 |
| Facilities | 0 | 1 |
| Tracks | 1 | 9 |
| Bus stops | 8 | 24 |
| Bus routes through | 2 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 4 | 39 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Redcliffs's page · Sumner's page
Questions, answered briefly
Redcliffs counts 2,150 people (2023) to Sumner's 3,490; Redcliffs covers 1.9 km², Sumner 11.99 km²; the record holds 2,456 reports for Redcliffs and 4,632 for Sumner.
Sumner, 39 on the heritage register to the other’s 4.
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.