Aussie postcodes with the best and worst covid vaccination rates

Australia has been promised the easing of restrictions if we reach the 80 per cent vaccination rate. See how your NSW suburb ranks in the race.

Australia is racing towards new freedoms as the country edges closer to higher vaccination rates, but like any race, there are winners and losers. Find out how your suburb is doing below.

Aussies have been promised a different life once 80 per cent of the community is vaccinated. For Sydney, this target could be met within weeks.

If the current rate is maintained 70 per cent of NSW would have one jab by September 5 and 80 per cent by September 17.

Premier Glady Berejiklian had previously said life would look very different once those rates of vaccination are reached.

“You can live life more freely than what you are today, but the extent of your freedom depends on case numbers,“ she said.

“If case numbers are where they are now and we get to 80 per cent double doses, we won‘t be able to do everything that we want to do.

“We will need to live with restrictions so long as Delta is around.”

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Suburbs in Sydney’s west and south west take the crown as the most vaccinated. With somewhere between 80 and 89 per cent of people receiving one vaccine in Berkshire Park, Box Hill and Maraylya.

Bondi Beach lags with only 20 to 29 per cent of the population fully vaccinated.

Vaccine rates across Australia

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Data published on August 15 from the Federal Government’s vaccine geographic location report showed that metropolitan areas in major cities are more likely to be vaccinated partially, or completely, compared to poorer, regional locations.

Areas in Sydney topped the charts for most vaccinations taking the top spots for single-dose vaccinations and complete vaccinations.

Queues outside one of Sydney’s mass vaccination clinics. Picture: AFP

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North Sydney and Hornsby top the charts for single doses with 63.8 per cent of the population vaccinated.

They’re closely followed by the Sutherland Shire at 62.8 per cent then Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury at 62.8 per cent.

North Sydney and Hornsby have the highest completely vaccinated population with 37.5 per cent of the population.

Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon told news.com.au he was not surprised by the statistics.

“Around the world, we have seen that higher socio-economic groups have been vaccinated more than those in poorer locations. This was around before Covid. While it shouldn’t, politics also plays a role in whether people are more likely to be vaccinated or not,” he said.

“In America, you particularly see evidence that people in Democrat-leaning areas are more likely to be vaccinated compared to Republican areas.

“There is also evidence that suggests areas that have had outbreaks are more likely to be vaccinated as they can effectively ‘see’ the virus. Whereas spots like in the Outback, Covid has yet to be there.”

Outback Queensland is at great risk from Covid-19 because it has remained largely untouched thus far.

Outback regions in Queensland and Western Australia have low vaccination rates. Picture: Getty Images

Regional locations in Western Australia and Queensland are the least protected against the virus.

At this stage, there has not been a major outbreak of Covid in a regional area.

In WA, just 21.1 per cent of the population in the north of the state has received a single dose of vaccine. Meanwhile, just 31.2 per cent of Queensland’s Outback regional area has received a vaccine. They are then followed by Queensland’s Mackay, Isaac and Whitsundays region with 32.8 per cent.

Australia’s best and worst vaccination locations based on Federal Government data

NSW

Aged over 15 and received one dose

Sydney, North Sydney and Hornsby – 63.3 per cent

Sydney, Sutherland – 61.8 per cent

Sydney, Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury – 62. 8 per cent

Fully vaccinated

Sydney: North Sydney and Hornsby – 37.2 per cent

Sydney: Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury – 35.2 per cent

Sydney: Eastern suburbs – 32.6 per cent

Worst locations for a single jab

Far West, Orana – 42.2 per cent

Hunter Valley and Newcastle – 45.6 per cent

New England and North West – 45.6 per cent

Police patrolling Bondi Beach during the current Delta outbreak. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Flavio Brancaleone

ACT

Aged over 15 and received one dose

52.2 per cent

Fully vaccinated

29.9

Queensland

Aged over 15 and received one dose

Brisbane West – 52.9 per cent

Sunshine Coast – 48.7 per cent

Brisbane North – 47.6

Fully vaccinated

Brisbane West – 32.6 per cent

Brisbane Inner City – 29.1 per cent

Brisbane North – 28.6 per cent

Worst location, one dose

Queensland Outback – 31.2 per cent

Mackay, Isaac, Whitsundays – 32.8 per cent

Logan, Beaudesert – 33.9 per cent

South Australia

Aged over 15 and received one dose

Adelaide South – 50.9 per cent

Adelaide Central and Hills – 50.6 per cent

Barossa, Yorke, Mid North – 42.8 per cent

Fully vaccinated

Adelaide Central and Hills – 30 per cent

Adelaide South – 29.9 per cent

South Australia Outback – 23.1 per cent

Worst location, one dose

Adelaide North – 39.8 per cent

Adelaide West – 41.1 per cent

Vaccination lines in Sydney. Picture: AFP

Tasmania

Aged over 15 and received one dose

Launceston and North East – 55.1 per cent

Hobart – 55 per cent

South East 50.3 per cent

Fully vaccinated

Launceston and North East – 34.5 per cent

Hobart – 34.5 per cent

South East – 50.3 per cent

Worst location, one dose

West and North West – 48.2 per cent (Note there are only four regions in Tasmania)

Victoria

Aged over 15 and received one dose

Warrnambool and South West – 57.9 per cent

Bendigo – 57.4 per cent

Geelong – 56.4 per cent

Fully vaccinated

Geelong – 33.9 per cent

Bendigo – 33 per cent

Warrnambool and South West – 27.5 per cent

Worst location, one dose

Melbourne North West – 39.5 per cent

Melbourne West – 40.9 per cent

Melbourne South East – 41.3 per cent

Western Australia

Over 15 and received dose

Perth Inner – 54.2 per cent

Perth North West – 44.6 per cent

Perth Mandurah – 44.4 per cent

Fully vaccinated

Perth Inner – 34.1 per cent

Perth South West – 24.3 per cent

Perth North West – 24.1 per cent

Worst location, one dose

WA Outback North – 21.1 per cent

WA Outback South – 34.4 per cent

Perth North East – 38.7 per cent

Originally published as Aussie postcodes with the best and worst covid vaccination rates