Australia’s richer areas more likely to have people working from home in pandemic, analysis finds

Empty Bourke Street Mall in 2021. The census that year was conducted when large parts of NSW and cities in Victoria were under lockdown conditions. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Areas with higher incomes in NSW and Victoria were more likely to have a higher percentage of people working from home during the pandemic, according to a Guardian Australia analysis of census data.

The data provides further evidence of how differently people in areas with different socioeconomic backgrounds experienced the pandemic.