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
| Russley | Yaldhurst | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 2,440 2023 | 2,700 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 1,074 indicative | 2,355 indicative |
| Census households | 429 | 822 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 18% | 16% |
| 65+ (Census) | 31% | 13% |
| Area | 1.3 km² | 18.02 km² |
| People per km² | 1,877 | 150 |
| Reports filed | 1,114 | 1,479 |
| Rank on the roll | 73rd of 108 | 70th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 857 | 82 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2023-01-11 15 reports | 2025-01-14 28 reports |
| Crashes on record | 108 7 fatal · 30 serious | 147 7 fatal · 33 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 1 biggest M3.5 | 5 biggest M3.4 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | — | TC1 1.3% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | — | — |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | 2% of the outline |
| The kept view | — | 15% of the outline |
| The waiting water | — | — |
| The quiet lines | all of the outline · 16% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · 83% under the airport’s contours · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 14 reaches (Ilam Stream, Pinehurst Crescent Drain) · 3% setback strips | 17 reaches (Paparua Stream, Paparua Stream Branch No 3) |
| The allowed shape | – | 1% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 415 frames filed · 2011–2014 | 228 frames filed · 2012–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 3 plaques · Avonhead Park, Manakura 1 Drainage Reserve | 1 plaque · Yaldhurst Hall |
| The rules on the ground | 3 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 2 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 4 parcels 1 current | 3 parcels 1 current |
| Made ground on file | 20 parcels 3 unvouched | 77 parcels all vouched or natural |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 2 verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | low 100% of the outline | unlikely 58% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 572 trees 1 veteran · 299 remembered felled | 1,493 trees no veterans · 219 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 46% of the outline · 48% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 55% of the outline |
| The plan’s reservations | 7% of the outline 7 designations · movement, learning | 20% of the outline 7 designations · movement, learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 1% of the outline 2 matters · utilities |
| The listed city | – | 2 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Roading/Streets 191 · Water Leak 127 · Overgrown Vegetation 75 | Dumped Rubbish 233 · Roading/Streets 213 · Overgrown Vegetation 136 |
| Schools | 0 | 1 |
| Parks | 3 | 9 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 3 | 0 |
| Bus stops | 12 | 2 |
| Bus routes through | 3 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 0 | 1 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Russley's page · Yaldhurst's page
Questions, answered briefly
Russley counts 2,440 people (2023) to Yaldhurst's 2,700; Russley covers 1.3 km², Yaldhurst 18.02 km²; the record holds 1,114 reports for Russley and 1,479 for Yaldhurst.
Yaldhurst, 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.