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Gosford vs Northern Beaches

Indigenous Area comparison ≈ 35 km apart · Gosford profile · Northern Beaches profile

Gosford Northern Beaches

Gosford and Northern Beaches are both coastal regions in New South Wales, but they offer very different levels of accessibility. Northern Beaches is very walkable, with 85.8% of homes within a 15-minute walk of groceries and 89.3% near a school. In contrast, Gosford is only somewhat walkable, and far fewer homes are within a 15-minute walk of health services (42.9%) or groceries (51.0%). There is also a significant gap in outcomes for First Nations people; in Northern Beaches, 62.6% of First Nations residents finished Year 12 and the typical personal income is $949, compared to 41.1% finishing Year 12 and a typical income of $616 in Gosford.

Both areas share a similar landscape, with almost identical mean terrain slopes of around 9.8%. While Northern Beaches has a higher number of intersections per square kilometre, both areas have a high proportion of homes within a 10-minute walk of public transport. Gosford has a far larger First Nations population (6,294 people) than Northern Beaches (1,706 people), though the typical age of First Nations residents is noticeably older in Northern Beaches.

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First Nations

First Nations people in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +4,588 larger in Gosford
6,294 88th pct 1,706 67th pct
Median age in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +4 yrs older in Northern Beaches
23 yrs 29th pct 27 yrs 71st pct
Year 12 in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +21.5 pts higher in Northern Beaches
41.1% 75th pct 62.6% 100th pct
Unemployment in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +3.1 pts higher in Gosford
9.3% 26th pct 6.2% 6th pct
Median income in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +$333 higher in Northern Beaches
$616 73rd pct $949 96th pct
Household income in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +$1,046 higher in Northern Beaches
$1,678 76th pct $2,724 100th pct
Indigenous language in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +1.9 pts higher in Northern Beaches
3.9% 28th pct 5.8% 45th pct

Walkability

Walk score in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +2.0 higher in Northern Beaches
5.4 76th pct 7.5 93rd pct
Types ≤15 min in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +1.9 more in Northern Beaches
5.1 74th pct 7.0 92nd pct
15-min city in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +31.3 pts higher in Northern Beaches
57.1% 66th pct 88.4% 89th pct
Walk to shops in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +34.8 pts higher in Northern Beaches
51.0% 54th pct 85.8% 87th pct
Walk to transit in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +4.5 pts higher in Northern Beaches
91.4% 82nd pct 95.9% 86th pct
Walk to school in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +29.0 pts higher in Northern Beaches
60.2% 54th pct 89.3% 84th pct
Walk to a park in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +6.7 pts higher in Northern Beaches
91.7% 71st pct 98.4% 87th pct
Walk to health in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +33.2 pts higher in Northern Beaches
42.9% 57th pct 76.1% 86th pct
Intersections/km² in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +63 higher in Northern Beaches
15 66th pct 78 79th pct
Mean slope in Gosfordin Northern Beaches +0.2 pts higher in Gosford
9.8% 96th pct 9.7% 95th pct

Compare Gosford with nearby areas

Wyong Hornsby - Ku-ring-gai Northern Beaches Baulkham Hills Lake Macquarie Cessnock Hunters Hill - Ryde Sydney - Lower North

Compare Northern Beaches with nearby areas

Sydney - Lower North Hornsby - Ku-ring-gai Hunters Hill - Ryde Leichhardt Woollahra - Waverley Sydney - City Marrickville Sydney - Inner West

Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Gosford vs Northern Beaches [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/compare/iare/IARE104007/gosford/vs/IARE107020/northern-beaches