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
| Somerfield | Sydenham | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 7,080 2023 | 6,970 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 6,813 indicative | 6,774 indicative |
| Census households | 2,664 | 3,084 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 19% | — |
| 65+ (Census) | 18% | — |
| Area | 2.48 km² | 3.04 km² |
| People per km² | 2,855 | 2,293 |
| Reports filed | 7,009 | 23,728 |
| Rank on the roll | 18th of 108 | 2nd of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 2,826 | 7,805 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2016-10-02 39 reports | 2023-08-30 144 reports |
| Crashes on record | 165 2 fatal · 32 serious | 819 11 fatal · 139 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 16 biggest M4.3 | 7 biggest M4.7 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC2 445.0% of the outline | TC3 7.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 11.5% 4 events | 1.4% 3 events |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | — |
| The remembered ground | 2% of the outline | — |
| The wild ledger | 2% of the outline | — |
| The kept view | 2% of the outline | — |
| The waiting water | 1% high-hazard · 11% managed | 0% high-hazard · 34% managed |
| The quiet lines | – | 3% of the outline |
| The drawn water | 25 reaches (Heathcote / Opawaho River, Tennysons Drain) · 5% setback strips · held edge | 32 reaches (Jacksons Creek Upper, Heathcote / Opawaho River) · 2% setback strips |
| The allowed shape | 31% under density overlays · Suburban Density Transition | 37% under density overlays · Medium Density |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 2,130 frames filed · 2000–2016 | 7,352 frames filed · 2009–2017 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Nor'West Arc, Quarryman's Trail +1 | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Quarryman's Trail, Southern Lights +1 |
| The remembered names | 3 plaques · Ashgrove Reserve, Somerfield Park | 8 plaques · Sydenham School Memorial, Sydenham Park |
| The rules on the ground | 9 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 10 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 6 parcels 4 current | 75 parcels 39 current |
| Made ground on file | 68 parcels 15 unvouched | 65 parcels 20 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 2 parcels 1 verified | 16 parcels none verified |
| The model’s verdict | medium 100% of the outline | medium 81% of the outline · 2 free-face flags |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,720 trees 31 veterans · 862 remembered felled | 1,385 trees 31 veterans · 660 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Residential Suburban 35% of the outline · 67% residential | Medium density residential zone 33% of the outline · 40% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 6% of the outline 3 designations · learning | 1% of the outline 1 designation · movement |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | 4% of the outline 8 matters · residential, heritage, utilities |
| The listed city | 4 scheduled items 1 highly significant | 10 scheduled items none top-graded |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 1,202 · Water Leak 791 · Dumped Rubbish 618 | Graffiti 6,894 · Dumped Rubbish 2,439 · Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 1,856 |
| Schools | 2 | 0 |
| Parks | 4 | 14 |
| Facilities | 2 | 0 |
| Tracks | 12 | 18 |
| Bus stops | 26 | 41 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 8 |
| Heritage places | 9 | 10 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Somerfield's page · Sydenham's page
Questions, answered briefly
Somerfield counts 7,080 people (2023) to Sydenham's 6,970; Somerfield covers 2.48 km², Sydenham 3.04 km²; the record holds 7,009 reports for Somerfield and 23,728 for Sydenham.
Sydenham, 10 on the heritage register to the other’s 9.
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.