Talk:Suburbs of Hamilton, New Zealand

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Is Clarkin the same as Fairfield? I redirected Clarkin to Fairfield. Please undo this if it is incorrect. -- Adabow (talk) 19:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Suburbs - should we follow the census boundaries?

Is there a reason for the current list of suburbs? Many are very short stubs and their boundaries seem far from clear. Would it be better to use the suburbs as listed by StatsNZ (and also Hamilton roads map) under Waikato - Hamilton? They have mapped boundaries and census data, whereas some of the current list just have a road name. For example, St James Park seems to refer to an area around St James Drive, but I can find little information about either, which means such articles can never be much more than short stubs.

Another option could be to use the suburbs named on the LINZ 1:50,000 map. However, it spells Queenswood with an 's' (which few other sources do) and includes Deanwell, Fairfield, Fitzroy, Forest Lake and Harrowfield, which are parts of StatsNZ areas. In the case of Fairfield, in particular, the name is more commonly used than the Chartwell & Clarkin StatsNZ areas, which it shares with the area commonly known as Chartwell.

A solution could be to include this table in this article, modified to move the articles on Ashmore, St James Park, St Petersburg and Somerset Heights into the Huntington article, the Crawshaw and Thornton articles into Grandview Heights, Magellan Rise and Sylvester into Flagstaff and Callum Brae in with Rototuna. Any thoughts please?

Current list (47)	StatsNZ map (44)	LINZ map (41) – (including other areas)
Ashmore
	Bader	Bader (Fitzroy)
Beerescourt	Beerescourt	Beerescourt
	Bryant
	Brymer
	Burbush	Burbush
Callum Brae
Chartwell	Chartwell	Chartwell (Clarkin, Fairfield)
Chedworth Park	Chedworth	Chedworth (Porritt)
	Clarkin
Claudelands	Claudelands	Claudelands
Crawshaw	Crawshaw
Deanwell		Deanwell (part of Melville)
Dinsdale	Dinsdale North	Dinsdale (N&S)
	Dinsdale South
Enderley	Enderley	Enderley (Insoll)
Fairfield		Fairfield (part of Chartwell & Clarkin)
Fairview Downs	Fairview Downs	Fairview Downs
Fitzroy		Fitzroy (part of Bader)
Flagstaff	Flagstaff	Flagstaff (Magellan Rise, Sylvester)
Forest Lake		Forest Lake (part of Maeroa)
Frankton	Frankton Junction	Frankton (Swarbrick)
Glenview	Glenview	Glenview
Grandview Heights	Grandview	Grandview Heights (Brymer, Crawshaw, Thornton)
Hamilton Central	Hamilton Central	Hamilton Central (Hamilton North, Whitiora)
Hamilton East	Hamilton East	Hamilton East (Naylor, Peachgrove)
Hamilton West	Hamilton Lake	Hamilton Lake
Hamilton North
Harrowfield		Harrowfield (part of Queenswood)
Hillcrest	Hillcrest West	Hillcrest
	Horsham Downs	Rototuna North
Huntington	Huntington	Huntington (Ashmore, St James Park, St Petersburg, Somerset Heights)
	Insoll
Maeroa	Maeroa	Maeroa
Magellan Rise
Melville	Melville	Melville
Livingstone	Nawton	Nawton (Western Heights)
	Naylor
	Peachgrove
Peacocke	Peacocke	Peacockes
	Porritt
Pukete	Pukete	Pukete (Pukete West)
	Pukete West
Queenwood	Queenwood	Queenswood
Riverlea	Riverlea	Riverlea
Rotokauri	Rotokauri	Rotokauri
Rototuna	Rototuna	Rototuna (Callum Brae)
Ruakura	(part of Newstead area)
St Andrews		St Andrews (Bryant)
St James Park
St Petersburg
Silverdale	Silverdale	Silverdale
Somerset Heights
Stonebridge		(meshblock 0978002 outside HCC)
	Swarbrick
	Sylvester
Temple View	Temple View	Temple View
Te Rapa	Te Rapa	Te Rapa
	Te Rapa North	Te Rapa Park
Thornton
	University	University
Western Heights		Western Heights (part of Nawton)
Whitiora		Whitiora (part of Hamilton Central)

Johnragla (talk) 09:41, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• The 2018 census has split up several previous areas. Does that prompt any thoughts on how to arrange Hamilton suburb articles?

  

  Hamilton census area boundaries 2018

  Johnragla (talk) 06:23, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your work showing the different ways of defining the suburbs. As I am not a Hamiltonian, I will not express my own opinion.-gadfium 07:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Do other cities have any system? It seems from the second paragraaph of the Suburbs article that they don't, so maybe Hamilton suburbs have to be left in their current unsystematic state. Johnragla (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2020 (UTC)