The Inner West area of Sydney includes the Ashfield, Strathfield, Burwood, Canada Bay, Leichhardt and Marrickville Local Government Areas.
As of January 2015, we house 824 people living in 447 dwellings in this area.
- 29 per cent of Bridge Housing residents live in the Inner West in January 2015, down from 30 per cent in July 2014.
- Around 36 per cent of tenants live in unit blocks with at least three Bridge Housing tenants for neighbours, around a quarter live in mixed neighbourhoods with Housing NSW residents and 64 per cent live alongside other renters and private owners.
- Just under a quarter of adult residents are people living with disability.
- Just over a quarter of residents are over 60.
- A quarter of residents are children and 17 per cent of households are headed by a sole parent.
- 7 per cent of residents are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
- Nearly a third of Bridge residents in this area speak a language other than English at home including Vietnamese, Arabic, and Mandarin.
Read our Community Profiles 2015 for all areas.