If you’ve ever found yourself wandering through a swanky suburb in Sydney and been gobsmacked at their wild coffee prices, chances are the incomes in the area are sky-high. It turns out that there’s certain hotspots for different job types in the sprawling city, so if you wanna avoid listening to chief executives or lawyers yap, read on!
The Sydney Morning Herald extracted some data from the latest census to reveal the most common jobs in each inner Sydney suburbs. They’ve created a nifty lil’ map, which you can play around with here.
It probably won’t come as a surprise that the most popular job in Sydney when looking at 562 different suburbs is the humble sales assistant. According to the data, it’s the most popular job in a whopping 381 suburbs that have a working population over 1,000 people.
Considering what salespeople have to endure on a daily basis from the Karens of the world, these are people I wouldn’t mind hanging out with.
The tastiest areas are smack-bang in the middle of the city, with chefs holing up in Haymarket and central Sydney. Looking for your own Jeremy Allen White? Maybe start here!
Now, if you’re looking for someone with money, you’d obviously head to the affluent suburbs like Vaucluse, Mosman, Hunters Hill and Balgowlah Heights. These areas house the most CEOs compared to other workers in the area. IDK what you’d be searching for CEOs for though — maybe to get bored to death listening to? Or find a sugar daddy? You do you, girlies.
If you want someone to do your taxes, you’re in luck, because accountants are the most common job pick in 38 suburbs spread amongst the northwest. Sales and marketing managers are the top occupation in 47 suburbs, typically found in the lower northern beaches and inner south.
Lawyers are spread out around inner Sydney, located in most of the richer suburbs like Woolloomooloo, McMahons Point and gentrified Newtown and Stanmore. Makes sense that us ~normies~ are slowly getting kicked out of Newtown and Stanmore.
So why do certain professions flock to live in the same areas? Sadly, it looks like it comes down to the cursed housing market.
“If you’re a lawyer or accountant in Sydney, you’re going to be living in a nice area, but it’s everybody else that kind of shuffles around,” UNSW City Futures Research Centre professor Bill Randolph told the SMH.
“Unless you start to build affordable homes in unaffordable places that polarisation can’t go backwards,” he said.
KPMG urban economist Terry Rawnsley also touched on the “social capital” that comes with living in bougie neighbourhoods.
“If you want to [hire] a really good barrister, the fact they live in Bondi kind of reassures you about their skills,” he said. “If they’re living somewhere else, you might go, ‘Well, are you the best barrister?’
“It’s almost a sort of prestige address which helps reinforce your credentials in that industry.”
Welp. So now we’re not only stuck with trying to find a place to live that’s affordable, but the location can actually matter when it comes to job hunting? This rollercoaster of life is not fun at all, and I would like to get off, thank you very much.
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