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Press kit: NSW's Hidden Cost of Living

For journalists and editors. Every figure here reconciles exactly against the source article and SuburbCost's underlying suburb data. Free to use with attribution to SuburbCost.

Embeddable chart

Stacked bar chart of council rates, water, insurance and modelled commute cost for 15 Greater Sydney suburbs, showing council rates as consistently the smallest slice.

Self-contained SVG, no script dependency. Drop it into a CMS as an image or embed the SVG markup directly. Attribution is built into the image itself.

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Hero statistic (social/share image)

Hero statistic card: same council rate, $1,766, every suburb. $4,385 is the gap in real annual cost between the cheapest and priciest Northern Beaches suburb.

1200×630, standard social preview dimensions. The single headline number, ready to share or use as a lead image.

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Editor summary

A 120-word summary you can paste directly into a commissioning note or editor's brief.

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Underlying data (CSV)

All 760 Greater Sydney suburbs: council rate, water, insurance, modelled commute, total, and council rate as a percentage of the total, plus flood and fire risk classification. Verify any figure in the article directly.

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Pitch email

The three-sentence pitch, with a subject line built around the lead statistic.

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Contact

Questions, a custom suburb cut for your readership area, or an interview request: contact@suburbcost.com.au