Food area · Sydney, Australia
Opening a cafe or restaurant in Surry Hills, Sydney
What stands out
About 30,200 people live within 1 km, a big pool of locals for a food street.
Surry Hills is the nearest station or bus station, 330 m away.
6 universities and colleges are within 1 km, so students come in term time.
- Residents within 1 km
- 30,200
- Median age 33.4, against 33.7 within 3 km
- Largest adult age group
- 25–34
- 33% of residents, against 31% within 3 km
- Food and drink places within 1 km
- 456
- One per 66 residents, against one per 72 within 3 km
- Trade from people who live elsewhere
- High
- 6 stations and 56 offices within 1 km
Measured from Crown Street at Devonshire Street on 17 October 2026. Residents and places within 1 km, compared with everyone within 3 km.
1Who lives here
About 30,200 residents within 1 km
Fewer children 0–14 (10% fewer) live here than in the surrounding area.
Figure 1
Share of all residents, by age group
Within 1 kmSurrounding area, 3 km
Each bar is the group’s share of all residents. The tag on the right: how much more or less common the group is here.
2Which kinds of place fit
No common kind of place stands out for the residents
This shows how well the usual regulars of 10 common kinds of place match the residents, against the surrounding 3 km. It’s a rough guide, and your own concept may draw a different crowd.
| Kind of place | Match with residents | Already within 1 km | Free check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bubble tea | Partial match | 1 bubble tea and tea shopFewer per resident than the wider area | Check it free: bubble tea |
| Burgers | Partial match | 10 burger placesFewer per resident than the wider area | Check it free: burgers |
| Fried chicken | Partial match | 10 chicken placesMore per resident than the wider area | Check it free: fried chicken |
| Sushi | Partial match | 24 sushi and Japanese placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: sushi |
| Pizza | Partial match | 12 pizza placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: pizza |
| Brunch cafe | Partial match | 132 cafes and brunch placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: brunch cafe |
| Bar | Partial match | 98 bars and pubsFar more per resident than the wider area | Check it free: bar |
| Coffee shop | Partial match | 137 cafes and coffee shopsAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: coffee shop |
| Pho or noodles | Partial match | 14 Vietnamese and noodle placesMore per resident than the wider area | Check it free: pho or noodles |
| Bakery | Partial match | 12 bakeriesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: bakery |
3What’s already here
456 food and drink places within 1 km
One for every 66 residents, against one for every 72 in the surrounding 3 km.
Most-tagged cuisines on the map: Japanese (20), coffee shop (19), Thai (16), Indian (12), Vietnamese (11) and pizza (11).
The nearest named places to where we measured
- MessinaIce cream, ice cream 40 meast
- SilomRestaurant, Thai 40 msouth-east
- FondaRestaurant 40 meast
- White Horse HotelPub 40 meast
- Yummy Duck BBQRestaurant, Chinese 40 mnorth-east
- Mille ViniRestaurant 40 msouth-east
- Bad MamaRestaurant 50 msouth-east
- Axil CoffeeCafe 70 mnorth-east
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers and misses some places, so the real counts are likely higher.
4What brings people past
6 stations, 56 offices and 6 schools within 1 km
These bring in people who don’t live here, so your customers can look quite different from the residents above.
- 6 stationsNearest: Surry Hills, 330 m south-west
- 56 offices
- 6 schoolsNearest: Sydney Distance Education Primary School, 100 m south-west
- 6 universities and collegesNearest: Swinburne Open Education, 440 m north-west
- 4 hospitalsNearest: Surry Hills Day Hospital, 620 m south
- 12 supermarkets and mallsNearest: Maloney's, 140 m south
- 39 hotels and hostelsNearest: ADGE Hotel, 580 m north
- 2 attractions and museumsNearest: Qtopia, 720 m north-east
5Limits
What this page can’t tell you
- Residents aren't diners. Workers and visitors who live elsewhere aren't counted, and the ages are 2020 estimates.
- The map misses places, and says nothing about how busy any of them is.
- Nothing here covers the lease: rent, visibility and parking.
Two checks only you can do: count who walks past at your hours, and test the rent against cautious sales. For census counts, see the ABS Census QuickStats for Greater Sydney.
Nearby food areas
- Newtown3.4 km
- Parramatta20.9 km
Straight-line distance between the points we measured from, not by road.