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Disadvantage index: The best and least worse of NSW
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Go west in Sydney, young man, and you will find not fame and fortune but Fairfield, Blacktown, Canterbury, Bankstown and Liverpool. And there you will find, gathered together, people living in areas which Australian Bureau of Census and Statistics figures show as being the most disadvantaged in New South Wales. But if it is just purely and simply the most deprived areas, without taking the number of residents into account, you are after, there’s plenty of them not far from the central business district of Sydney. While census collection districts around Riverwood in the ABS’s statistical local area of Canterbury are the most deprived areas of the State, along with a little pocket of Moree on the northern central plains, Redfern and Waterloo in inner South Sydney figure prominently. In this Crikey study of the most socially disadvantaged areas of NSW we look at the figures derived from the Census of 2006 in two ways - the smallest area for which the ABS publishes figures called census collection districts (CSD’s) and then an accumulation of these CSD’s into larger units, more like suburbs, which the ABS describes as statistical local areas. The figures are based on the Preliminary Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (PIRSD) recently published by the ABS. The PIRSD summarises a wide range of information on disadvantage collected from the 2006 census, including low income, little education, high unemployment and unskilled occupations. THE 20 MOST SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS OF NSW AS MEASURED IN THE 2006 CENSUS
(To see the location of each area click on the Census Collection District number)
The Worst in NSW When it comes to looking at the broader areas, with social disadvantage grouped by the total population which lives in the area, part of Fairfield East comes out on top as the most socially disadvantaged. It has 75,294 people living in areas classified as the top decile (10%) of disadvantage. Blacktown south west comes in second. At the time of the census there were 34,702 people living in areas classified as the top disadvantage decile. In Liverpool East, 34,322 people were in one of the most disadvantaged areas of the state. It is no surprise to find that Canterbury, which contains four of the 20 most deprived census collection districts, makes the list of suburbs with the most people living in one of the most disadvantaged areas of NSW. You can click here for a list of how many people in each Sydney suburb and NSW regional and country town live in one of NSW’s top decile (worst) areas of social disadvantage.
The Best in NSW
At the other end of the scale, the least socially deprived areas of Sydney, as measured by the small units of census collection districts, are predominantly clustered around Sydney’s north shore and the eastern suburbs although one pocket of Queanbeyan, just outside of Canberra, makes the top 20 list. THE 20 LEAST SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS OF NSW AS MEASURED IN THE 2006 CENSUS
(To see the location of each area click on the Census Collection District number) When it comes to looking at the broader suburbs, with areas with the least social disadvantage grouped by the total population which lives in the area, Ku-Ring-Gai comes out top with 91,936 people in areas classified in a 10th decile (least disadvantaged) area. The west of the Sutherland Shire in the St George Sutherland region came in second with 56,174 people living in a 10th decile area at the time of the 2006 Census. In Warringah, on Sydney’s northern beaches region, 55,596 people lived in one of the least disadvantaged areas on Census day.. The central part of Baulkham Hills had 49,305 people living in the best decile area. And if you are wondering why Woolahra in the Eastern Suburbs does not feature in this abbreviated list, just remember that this is a ranking based on the quantity of people living in a best (or least disadvantaged) area not the quality. The really exclusive suburbs are just that – exclusive to the privileged few and thus destined not to feature in a mass market approach like this. You can click here for a list of how many people in each Sydney suburb and NSW regional and country town live in one of NSW’s bottom decile (best) areas of least social disadvantage.
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I have no doubt that Crikey with its resolutely pan Australian focus will follow up this article with similarly detailed analyses of Australia’s other 5 States and 2 Territories. I look forward to reading them.