UD - Stats Flashcards
Inequalities in Sydney - what groups most affected?
- Results from ‘Sydney Inequality Indicator Framework’ produced by Sydney University
• “Inequalities are starkest for City residents who are Indigenous, low-income, or living with disability”
Broad wealth patterns by location in Sydney
DIVIDED ALONG LATTE LINE: AIRPORT TO PARRA
• Northern + eastern suburbs (Epping + Willoughby) = advantage + relative wealth
northern beaches advantaged (manly, dee why)
• Inner west, south west + some north west (Campbelltown, Liverpool) = disadvantage
Sutherland Shire (cronulla) = wealthy
Income disparity gender
Men are twice as likely to be high income earners than women (Sydney Inequality Indicator Framework, 2020)
Ethnic diversity + concentration in Sydney
38% of immigrants to Australia have settled in the Sydney area (Atlas of NSW)
Counter-urbanisation statistics, house sale growth in rural areas
Sales of property in regional NSW grew by 20% in 2020
General outline of Sydney (location, pop, area)
- mid-SE coast of Australia
- 34S, 151E
- > 5m ppl (ABS 2016)
- > 12 000km sq.
% overseas born Syd
> 40% (ABS 2016)
Suburb w/ lowest avg. income
Fairfield
Crime rate in Sydney (for spatial exlusion)
“Relatively low” - Ed Blakely, USyd professor
Greater sydney GDP
$460bn (city of sydney 2020)
median house price Syd
1.6m (ABC News 2022)
Urban consolidation requirements - goal from govt
70% of all new dwellings must be accommodated on existing urban land by 2031 (NSW govt)
Barangaroo - key worker housing
1.3% (LendLease 2016)
Barangaroo - contribution to GDP p.a.
2bn (NSW govt 2020)
Barangaroo - how many new permanent jobs?
23 000 (NSW govt 2020)
