Blacktown - South vs Lalor Park

Blacktown - South and Lalor Park are neighbouring areas in Western Sydney with very different levels of access to essentials. In Blacktown - South, 86.3% of homes are within a 15-minute walk of groceries and 62.6% are near health services, figures that are far higher than in Lalor Park, where those shares are 49.0% and 35.5% respectively. Blacktown - South also has a far larger Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, with 1,103 people compared to 392 in Lalor Park.

Both areas are very walkable and share similar terrain and types of nearby amenities. However, some gaps between them are widening, such as the one in street connectivity, which is now far higher in Lalor Park with 182 intersections per square kilometre compared to 109 in Blacktown - South. This higher connectivity in Lalor Park is consistent with more homes having a 15-minute-city walkshed (96.4%) and every single home being within a 15-minute walk of a school.