There are stark differences in job opportunities across Sydney, with the south-west of the city having among the highest unemployment rates in the country while Sutherland and Northern Beaches have the lowest.

The gap between Sydney’s best and worst regional unemployment rates has been about 3 percentage points, or higher, throughout the past year and threatens to exacerbate differences in income and wealth across the city.

Sydney’s South West statistical district, which takes in Liverpool, Fairfield and Bonnyrigg, had the state’s highest jobless rate of 5.1 per cent in November, modelling by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows.

Only the Queensland Outback (5.5 per cent), South Australian Outback (5.3 per cent) and Northern Territory Outback (5.3 per cent) had higher unemployment. Melbourne’s West and North West statistical districts both had the same........

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