According to the Urban Living Index, Crows Nest is the most liveable suburb in Sydney. Other suburbs that scored highly include North Sydney, Lavender Bay, Neutral Bay, Kirribilli as well as Manly and Fairlight.
The highest number of rich-listers live in the 2088 postcode in Sydney - which includes Mosman and Spit Junction - with 19,707 people earning $188,324, on average.
Over on Sydney's lower north shore, Hunters Hill and Woolwich are situated on a small peninsula that separates the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers. Aside from some of Sydney's richest, the area is also home to a number of heritage buildings and impressive houses.
The country's lowest-ranked postcode (4713) is in central Queensland, a place called Woorabinda south-west of Rockhampton. The least advantaged place in Sydney (for the third census running) is Claymore (2559), which is located in the Campbelltown council area and contains a lot of public housing.
And so we end the post with our own thoughts on where British expats live in Sydney. It seems many people gravitate towards North Sydney (as noted in this post) and it's no surprise we did too. When we first moved to Sydney we stayed with family in the south near Cronulla.
What are the poorest suburbs in Sydney? As per the Australian Taxation Office, there are many disadvantaged areas in Sydney including Blacktown, Fairfield, Carramar, Auburn, Parramatta, Campsie, Cabramatta, and others.
Roseville, Mosman and Mount Kuring-Gai were top of the list.
Suburbs in the leafy north have been billed as the harbour city's healthiest places to live, new research shows. Thirty two suburbs received five-star ratings in the Domain Healthy Sydney study, the majority of which were located between the lower north's Wollstonecraft and the northern suburb of Berowra Heights.
Meanwhile, Sydney's quietest suburbs include North Kellyville, which has an average noise level of 40 decibels, Varroville and Maroota (42 decibels) and St Ives Chase (45 decibels).
Castle Hill topped the list of suburbs, with 28,973 engagements over the past 12 months. With a median price of $2.088m, the suburb's popularity has been driven by high quality local schools and proximity to the upcoming Metro Rail Line.
Rhodes was once the butt of jokes because of the stench that wafted from its paint factories and chemical plants. But the industrial hub now reborn as a high-density residential precinct has emerged as Sydney's best educated neighbourhood.
What are the richest suburbs in Australia? The highest-earning suburbs in Australia are Cottesloe and Peppermint Grove in Western Australia, based on the ATO's latest taxation figures.
Hurstville, 16 kilometres south-west of the CBD, occupies a unique spot on Sydney's demographic map. With more than half of its residents reporting Chinese ancestry, it is the only suburb across all of NSW where one community of non-English migrants outnumbers everyone else combined.
Although there has been an enormous improvement in living conditions and reputation in South Sydney, there is still one area that might be recognised as a slum area. Aboriginal people10 have always lived in the area of a reserve at Bunnerong on Botany Bay, near the power station.
The eastern suburbs of Sydney (Bondi, Bondi Junction, Coogee, and Waverley) are the most populated by Irish expats, and on top of that, an impressive number of Sydney locals share in Irish ancestry too.
The three largest ancestries in City of Sydney in 2021 were English, Australian and Chinese.
The western suburbs, especially the Canterbury-Bankstown area and the CBD area are the cultural diversity hubs of Sydney. Among the greater Sydney area, Lidcombe scores the lowest HHI which means it proudly can call itself the most culturally diverse area.
Politicians like to talk about Sydney as a global city, but it has a glaring weakness for a city claiming that status: its public transport system. Sydney has a very high level of car dependency by world city standards and a low level of mass transit coverage.
The most populous city in Australia, Sydney has the country's highest cost of living. In the 2022 Mercer Cost of Living Survey, Sydney ranked 58th out of 227 cities. This is largely due to the cost of accommodation, though the price tags on a lot of the city's entertainment options are also a contributing factor.