Hunters Hill - Ryde vs Leichhardt

Hunters Hill - Ryde and Leichhardt are neighbouring areas in Sydney with very different layouts. Leichhardt is a walker's paradise, where 99.2% of homes are within a 15-minute walk of groceries and 97% are near health services. Hunters Hill - Ryde is also very walkable, but its figures are lower, with 88.7% of homes near groceries and 79.9% near health services. Leichhardt has far more street connectivity with 347 intersections per square kilometre, compared to 210 in Hunters Hill - Ryde.

These areas have stayed similar in how many people speak a First Nations language, and both have every home within a 15-minute walk of a park. However, a gap is widening in the ages of First Nations residents; they are now noticeably older in Leichhardt, where the typical person is 32, compared to 25 in Hunters Hill - Ryde. While Hunters Hill - Ryde has a larger First Nations population, Leichhardt has a higher unemployment rate for this group at 10.4%.