The 2006 Census provides an opportunity to view a snapshot of Sydney in its current state of flux. This report presents the first detailed suburb-by-suburb analysis of social changes in Sydney between 2001 and 2006.
A major innovation for the 2006 Census is the ability to chart changes at the suburb level between the two censuses. Before now, the only realistic scale at which change could be analysed and mapped was the local government or Statistical District scale. Arguably, the suburb offers a geographical scale that more people can relate to. Less remote than that of a local government area, and more coherent than the much smaller scale Census Collection District, the suburb is somewhere we can identify as a place where we liv
