BURWOOD

Burwood is situated in the central part of Metropolitan Sydney east of Strathfield. Chinese is the largest ethnic language group (14.33 %), followed by Italian (7.2 %) and Arabic (5.63 %). The following table and graph compare the population of the five major ethnic languages spoken at home with those speaking only English.


Location of the surveyed area at Burwood:


The findings:
I started my survey on Burwood Road near Westfield Shopping Centre. After recording the characteristics of fifty shops, I found that only 6 of them displayed Chinese. This was very surprising, as it did not reflect the ethnic composition in the population of the suburb. However, once I had walked past the railway station along the same road, the streetscape changed dramatically. Then I realised that the Chinese shops were not evenly distributed along Burwood Road, but were concentrated on the stretch south of the railway station. I decided to conduct a second survey to compare with the one I had previously done. There are 46 % of the shops surveyed displayed Chinese languages with another 8 % displaying Korean. This contrasts with the result along the northern part of the road that had only 12 % with Chinese and 4 % with other ethnic languages.


Compare the results found along the same road, but north of the railway station:

Burwood Railway Station — divider of streetscapes in the suburb