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 Martins	Waltham
Population	—	4,460 2023
2023 Census (SA1 join)	2,802 indicative	2,175 indicative
Census households	1,149	999
Under 15 (Census)	19%	—
65+ (Census)	18%	—
Area	1.15 km²	1.77 km²
People per km²	—	2,520
Reports filed	3,384	9,547
Rank on the roll	43rd of 108	12th of 108
Reports per km²	2,943	5,394
First report on record	2015	2015
Busiest day	2022-09-12 18 reports	2022-02-16 42 reports
Crashes on record	76 0 fatal · 12 serious	341 2 fatal · 81 serious
Epicentres inside the outline	4 biggest M3.9	1 biggest M3.9
Of the outline, red-zoned	—	—
The 2011 grade	TC2 70.9% of the outline	TC3 16.3% of the outline
Flooded on record	10.1% 4 events	1.9% 2 events
The sea’s reach	—	—
Slope-hazard bands	4% of the outline +4% broad overlay	—
The remembered ground	2% of the outline	—
The wild ledger	2% of the outline	—
The kept view	2% of the outline	—
The waiting water	3% high-hazard · 15% managed	0% high-hazard · 41% managed
The quiet lines	–	–
The drawn water	31 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Victory Drain Branch No 1) · 9% setback strips	11 reaches (Jacksons Creek Lower, Jacksons Creek Lower Branch) · 1% setback strips
The allowed shape	9% under density overlays · Suburban	39% under density overlays · Medium Density
The rebuild’s receipts	2,517 frames filed · 2010–2016	4,046 frames filed · 2009–2016
The pedal network	0.0 km inside the outline · Southern Lights	0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Heathcote Expressway, Ōpāwaho River
The remembered names	5 plaques · Heathcote Riverbank Tr South, St Martins Park	10 plaques · Edmonds Factory Garden, Waltham Park
The rules on the ground	8 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga	13 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga
On the hazard register	6 parcels 2 current	51 parcels 36 current
Made ground on file	44 parcels 8 unvouched	32 parcels 11 unvouched
Surveyed rocks	58 rocks 53 fell	–
Cleanups on file	7 parcels 7 verified	6 parcels none verified
The model’s verdict	medium 43% of the outline · 4 free-face flags	medium 64% of the outline · 3 free-face flags
Engineered defences	–	–
The canopy	891 trees 7 veterans · 459 remembered felled	965 trees 42 veterans · 635 remembered felled
The plan’s word	Residential Suburban 54% of the outline · 72% residential	Medium density residential zone 38% of the outline · 39% residential
The plan’s reservations	4% of the outline 3 designations · learning	16% of the outline 6 designations · movement, learning
The plan’s exceptions	–	5% of the outline 11 matters · residential, nps matter, heritage
The listed city	1 scheduled item none top-graded	5 scheduled items 1 highly significant
The usual complaints	Graffiti 680 · Water Leak 552 · Roading/Streets 291	Graffiti 2,232 · Dumped Rubbish 1,567 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 892
Schools	2	2
Parks	3	7
Facilities	0	0
Tracks	16	13
Bus stops	18	17
Bus routes through	3	6
Heritage places	1	6

Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Saint Martins's page · Waltham's page

Questions, answered briefly

What is the difference between Saint Martins and Waltham?

Saint Martins covers 1.15 km², Waltham 1.77 km²; the record holds 3,384 reports for Saint Martins and 9,547 for Waltham.

Which has more heritage places, Saint Martins or Waltham?

Waltham, 6 on the heritage register to the other’s 1.

Where do these numbers come from?

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.

A shared pair answers without a script, the tries above render straight from the record. To pick your own suburbs, the record is still readable: every suburb has its own page under /suburb.

Questions, answered briefly

What does this page compare?

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.

Does a suburb with more reports have more problems?

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.

Where does the data come from?

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.