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
| Saint Albans | Strowan | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 15,010 2023 | 3,620 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 8,373 indicative | 3,564 indicative |
| Census households | 3,834 | 1,263 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 12% | 20% |
| 65+ (Census) | 14% | 18% |
| Area | 3.97 km² | 1.36 km² |
| People per km² | 3,781 | 2,662 |
| Reports filed | 11,244 | 2,555 |
| Rank on the roll | 10th of 108 | 55th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 2,832 | 1,879 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2016-01-25 31 reports | 2023-07-30 28 reports |
| Crashes on record | 390 4 fatal · 73 serious | 146 1 fatal · 32 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | — | — |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 133.6% of the outline | TC3 2.1% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 15.9% 4 events | 4.0% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | — | — |
| The wild ledger | — | — |
| The kept view | — | — |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 55% managed | 0% high-hazard · 32% managed |
| The quiet lines | 88% of the outline · bird-strike buffer | all of the outline · bird-strike buffer |
| The drawn water | 161 reaches (St Albans Creek, Dudley Creek) · 6% setback strips | 52 reaches (Cross Stream, Taylor Stream) · 5% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 52% under density overlays · Medium Density | 14% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 4,413 frames filed · 2009–2017 | 530 frames filed · 2011–2016 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Papanui Parallel | 0.0 km inside the outline · Northern Line |
| The remembered names | 5 plaques · Abberley Park, English Park Stadium | – |
| The rules on the ground | 14 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 4 parcels 2 current | 3 parcels 2 current |
| Made ground on file | 155 parcels 10 unvouched | 50 parcels 4 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 3 parcels 2 verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | medium 61% of the outline · 5 free-face flags | medium 78% of the outline · 4 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 2,509 trees 68 veterans · 1,175 remembered felled | 763 trees 7 veterans · 300 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Medium density residential zone 48% of the outline · 72% residential | Residential Suburban 54% of the outline · 68% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 2% of the outline 2 designations · movement, learning | 3% of the outline 2 designations · learning |
| The plan’s exceptions | 5% of the outline 4 matters · heritage, residential | 5% of the outline 2 matters · heritage |
| The listed city | 12 scheduled items 2 highly significant | 2 scheduled items 1 highly significant |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 2,008 · Roading/Streets 1,553 · Water Leak 1,268 | Graffiti 497 · Water Leak 355 · Roading/Streets 258 |
| Schools | 2 | 0 |
| Parks | 9 | 1 |
| Facilities | 0 | 0 |
| Tracks | 15 | 14 |
| Bus stops | 34 | 13 |
| Bus routes through | 4 | 4 |
| Heritage places | 22 | 10 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Saint Albans's page · Strowan's page
Questions, answered briefly
Saint Albans counts 15,010 people (2023) to Strowan's 3,620; Saint Albans covers 3.97 km², Strowan 1.36 km²; the record holds 11,244 reports for Saint Albans and 2,555 for Strowan.
Saint Albans, 22 on the heritage register to the other’s 10.
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.