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
| Spreydon | Westmorland | |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 9,970 2023 | 2,910 2023 |
| 2023 Census (SA1 join) | 9,279 indicative | 2,667 indicative |
| Census households | 3,834 | 945 |
| Under 15 (Census) | 16% | 16% |
| 65+ (Census) | 13% | 18% |
| Area | 2.65 km² | 2.51 km² |
| People per km² | 3,762 | 1,159 |
| Reports filed | 7,319 | 1,501 |
| Rank on the roll | 16th of 108 | 69th of 108 |
| Reports per km² | 2,762 | 598 |
| First report on record | 2015 | 2015 |
| Busiest day | 2018-01-15 43 reports | 2026-01-06 11 reports |
| Crashes on record | 181 1 fatal · 41 serious | 18 0 fatal · 7 serious |
| Epicentres inside the outline | 5 biggest M4.4 | 24 biggest M3.7 |
| Of the outline, red-zoned | — | — |
| The 2011 grade | TC3 7.8% of the outline | TC2 7.2% of the outline |
| Flooded on record | 10.8% 5 events | 43.7% 1 event |
| The sea’s reach | — | — |
| Slope-hazard bands | — | 3% of the outline +45% broad overlay |
| The remembered ground | 1% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| The wild ledger | 1% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| The kept view | 1% of the outline | 1% of the outline |
| The waiting water | 0% high-hazard · 2% managed | 17% high-hazard · 41% managed · 1 ponding |
| The quiet lines | 1% of the outline · bird-strike buffer | – |
| The drawn water | 12 reaches (Wilderness Drain, Heathcote / Opawaho River) · 1% setback strips · held edge | 41 reaches (Cashmere Stream, Dunbar Waterway) · 7% setback strips · held edge |
| The allowed shape | 67% under density overlays · Medium Density | – |
| The rebuild’s receipts | 1,463 frames filed · 2001–2017 | 882 frames filed · 2011–2013 |
| The pedal network | 0.0 km inside the outline · 0.0 km separated · Little River Link, Nor'West Arc +1 | 0.0 km inside the outline |
| The remembered names | 5 plaques · Barrington Park, Spreydon Domain | 1 plaque · Penruddock 2 Drainage Reserve |
| The rules on the ground | 11 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga | 2 drawn rules · Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga |
| On the hazard register | 9 parcels 5 current | – |
| Made ground on file | 52 parcels 4 unvouched | 188 parcels 1 unvouched |
| Surveyed rocks | – | – |
| Cleanups on file | 3 parcels none verified | – |
| The model’s verdict | medium 86% of the outline · 1 free-face flag | possible 47% of the outline |
| Engineered defences | – | – |
| The canopy | 1,452 trees 57 veterans · 582 remembered felled | 642 trees 1 veteran · 129 remembered felled |
| The plan’s word | Medium density residential zone 67% of the outline · 73% residential | Rural Urban Fringe 35% of the outline · 39% residential |
| The plan’s reservations | 2% of the outline 2 designations · learning | – |
| The plan’s exceptions | – | – |
| The listed city | 2 scheduled items none top-graded | – |
| The usual complaints | Graffiti 898 · Dumped Rubbish 877 · Water Leak 740 | Roading/Streets 192 · Water Leak 167 · Parks 140 |
| Schools | 3 | 0 |
| Parks | 9 | 5 |
| Facilities | 1 | 0 |
| Tracks | 17 | 3 |
| Bus stops | 36 | 12 |
| Bus routes through | 5 | 1 |
| Heritage places | 4 | 0 |
Same record, same caveats, the stream counts reports, not virtue. Spreydon's page · Westmorland's page
Questions, answered briefly
Spreydon counts 9,970 people (2023) to Westmorland's 2,910; Spreydon covers 2.65 km², Westmorland 2.51 km²; the record holds 7,319 reports for Spreydon and 1,501 for Westmorland.
Spreydon, 4 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.