Wiping the slate clean: Which Sydney residents are most likely to outsource house cleaning?

People living in the Eastern Suburbs, Inner West and Western Sydney are laziest when it comes to cleaning up after themselves. On average they hire cleaners 2.3x more than their counterparts living in the Northern Beaches and Sutherland.

Cleaning their act up

When it comes to outsourcing the dirty work to someone else, residents of the Eastern Suburbs are the laziest. They are 2.4x more likely to outsource their cleaning than the typical Sydney resident.

Over the last 12 months:

·      Eastern Suburbs residents outsource cleaning 142% more than average

·      Inner West residents outsource cleaning 94% more than average

·      Western Sydney residents 82% more than average

·      Parramatta residents 46% more than average

Residents with clean hands?

·      Northern Beaches – outsource cleaning 12% less

·      Canterbury/ Bankstown – 23% less

·      Sutherland – 47% less

“The Inner West and Eastern Suburbs are areas where residents are more likely to hire a cleaner than do their own dirty work. These areas are 2.6 times more likely to outsource cleaning compared to Northern Beaches residents” says CEO ofServiceSeeking.com.au, Jeremy Levitt.

Levitt continued: “This analysis correlates closely with the so called “Latte Line”. Residents with higher incomes are able to get the professionals in to save them time that they can spend with loved ones and doing things they like”.

Clean as a whistle

Residents of certain suburbs will bend over backwards to avoid doing their own cleaning.

·      Sydney CBD residents post 9.1x more cleaning jobs than average

·      Parramatta – 8.2x more

·      Kellyville – 6.1x more

·      Castle Hill – 5.9x more

·      Blacktown – 5.9x more

·      Surry Hills – 5.5x more

·      Bondi – 5.2x more

·      Chatswood – 4.8x more

·      Mosman – 4.3x more

·      Randwick – 4.3x more

Wiping their slate clean

Residents of these suburbs are happy to clean up after themselves.

·      Kirribilli hired 1.5x less cleaners

·      Collaroy – 1.5x less

·      Clovelly – 1.8x less

·      Seaforth – 2.1x less

·      Tamarama – 2.1x less

·      Daceyville – 2.3x less

·      Palm Beach – 2.5x less

·      Manly – 3.9x less

What does it cost to hire a house cleaner?

House cleaning services cost around $30/hr, with prices rising as high as $50/hour depending on a range of factors. The factors that determine cleaning costs include your location, size of your home and extent of the service. A full analysis of the factors that determine the cost of house cleaning can be found here.

The data was derived by sampling 15,000 jobs submitted in 2018 by customers throughServiceSeeking.com.au, the website for getting any job done.

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