Talk:Suburbs of Hamilton, New Zealand

message: 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)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title:  Suburbs - should we follow the census boundaries?