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A big gap in toll road spending has emerged across Sydney with many households in the south-west forking out more than double the amount in tolls each year than those in inner-metropolitan areas.
Camden council area has the highest average household toll spending at $793 per year, which is 117 per cent more than the inner-metropolitan average. Wollondilly Shire on the south-western fringe is the next highest with $774 per year .The study by analytics firm Alpha Beta, a part of Accenture, and credit bureau illion scanned the anonymous transactions of millions of commuters to calculate average spending on tolls by households in Sydney between May and September.
“Because many of the higher paid jobs are in the city, people in the west face an effective tax on getting those jobs. Some of them will be wondering if it’s worth it." In Fairfield council, which had the lowest median weekly income among Sydney’s local council areas according to the last census, households pay an average of $574 a year which is 57 per cent more than inner metropolitan suburbs. The highest 10 per cent of toll-paying households in Fairfield are spending an average of $6046 per year.But in Ku-ring-gai, one of Sydney’s wealthiest areas, households spent an average of $7.13 per week or $371 a year on tolls.
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