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One in eight people now 'living in poverty' in NSW

Welfare advocates say NSW postcodes are a strong indicator of where people are facing poverty. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

One in eight people in NSW are living in poverty, which the new premier has labelled "an urgent crisis for literally hundreds of thousands of people".

Preliminary analysis of 2021 Census data by researchers from the University of Canberra's National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling has found the number of people living below the poverty line has grown by 100,000 since 2016.

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