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The Sydney apartment tribes reshaping the harbour city – Sydney Morning Herald
A young couple sipping chardonnay is often the stereotype of those living in Sydney’s apartments. New mapping dispels that notion.
They reflect significant changes over the past decade in the way Sydney houses its population of 5.3 million. About 15 per cent of NSW’s population, or 1.12 million people the vast bulk of whom are in Sydney now live in apartments, compared with 8 per cent of Victoria’s population and 7 per cent of Queensland’s.
Over the past decade, 258,000 apartments have been built in NSW, which translates into an extra 500,000 people living in units.
What has not been well known is exactly who lives in them….
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