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The wealthy postcodes where there are NO Covid cases and nearly EVERYONE is jabbed as others lag behind - here are the best and worst performing suburbs in the vaccine rollout across Australia

Thousands of Australians live in areas without a single coronavirus case and sky-high vaccination, while others lag far behind in the race to reach 70 per cent.

The majority of people in some of the nation's wealthiest postcodes are already double-jabbed with their suburbs also home to zero Covid cases, as poorer remote communities struggle to reach the heralded figure.

Pockets of Victoria's Great Ocean Road, a Queensland border town, Hobart and Darwin are well ahead in the national Covid race, providing strong competition for Sydney's elite suburbs, while Melbourne is surprisingly lagging behind with just 24.5 per cent of people fully-jabbed.

In the Ku-ring-gai council area, on Sydney's Upper North Shore, 53.3 per cent of people aged 16 and over were already fully vaccinated as of August 27, with an impressive 79.4 per cent having received a first dose.

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian isn't expecting 70 per cent of adults to have received two jabs of either AstraZeneca or Pfizer until October.

By that time, she is hoping to ease lockdowns in Australia's most populated state, with increased freedoms being tied to vaccine take-up and hopes of a National Cabinet consensus to end hated border restrictions.

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In the Ku-ring-gai council area, on Sydney's Upper North Shore, 53.3 per cent of people aged 16 and over were already fully vaccinated (pictured is a home at Gordon where there are zero active cases)

In the Ku-ring-gai council area, on Sydney's Upper North Shore, 53.3 per cent of people aged 16 and over were already fully vaccinated (pictured is a home at Gordon where there are zero active cases)

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian isn't expecting 70 per cent of adults to have received jabs of either AstraZeneca or Pfizer until October (pictured, a locked-down Sydneysider in the Bayside area)

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian isn't expecting 70 per cent of adults to have received jabs of either AstraZeneca or Pfizer until October (pictured, a locked-down Sydneysider in the Bayside area)

Australia's best and worst for double jabs

Queenscliffe, Victoria: 64% 

Ku-ring-gai, Sydney Upper North Shore: 53.3%

Woollahra, Sydney's east: 51.4%

Goondiwindi, southern Queensland: 50.6% 

Mosman, Sydney Lower North Shore: 49.9% 

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Cherbourg, Queensland: 4.6% 

Grant, South Australia: 5.7%

Yarrabah: far north Queensland: 8.3% 

Isaac, central Queensland: 10.7%

Coolgardie, Western Australia: 14.9% 

The upmarket Ku-ring-gai local government area covers Gordon and St Ives, where there are zero active cases of Covid.

Neighbouring suburbs in the Northern Beaches Council, the home of a pre-Christmas outbreak, were also home to zero case postcodes including Dufftys Forest, Terrey Hills, Frenchs Forest and Warriewood.

Avalon Beach, the epicentre of a cluster in December, also had zero cases. 

In the Woollahra council area, in the eastern suburbs, 51.4 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated with 73.6 per cent having received a first dose.

Darling Point on Sydney Harbour is home to just one active case.

The Ku-ring-gai and Woollahra council areas have a double-vaccination rate that looks more like the United States, where 52 per cent of people of all ages are fully vaccinated.

Only Victoria's Queenscliffe Borough on Port Phillip Bay has a higher vaccination rate, with 64 per cent having received two doses and 86.9 per cent having had two injections.  

Unlike Australia, the US has been administering Pfizer to those aged 12 to 16, not just those aged over 16, meaning its vaccine rate includes a great chunk of the population. 

In Australia, just 34.16 per cent of people are fully vaccinated with 57.47 per cent having received a first dose, Department of Health data showed.

HIGHEST VACCINATION RATES IN EACH STATE

STATE, AREAS, SINGLE DOSE AND DOUBLE DOSE %

New South Wales: 

Ku-ring-gai (79.4%, 53.3%)

Woollahra (73.6%, 51.4%) 

Mosman (74.9%, 49.9%) 

Murray River (79.1%, 49.8%)

Victoria:

Queenscliffe (86.9%, 64%) 

Surf Coast (73.1%, 48.3%) 

Buloke (71.6%, 48.4%)

Queensland:

Goondiwindi (73%, 50.6%)

Hinchinbrook (59.2%, 40.6%)

Noosa (57.7%, 33.6%)

South Australia:

Orroroo/Carrieton (72.2%, 41.2%)

Victor Harbor  (67.7%, 44.7%)

Burnside (66.2%, 46.8%)  

Western Australia:

Cottesloe (77.2%, 53.1%)

Nedlands (76.5%, 53.8%)

Tasmania:

Hobart (66.1%, 49.2%)

Tasman (67.7%, 45.2%)

Kingborough (64.2%, 46.2%)

In Victoria, Melbourne surprisingly has the the second lowest vaccination rate in the state with just 24.5 per cent, slightly above Greater Dandenong (pictured, Melburnians wait in line to get vaccinated)

In Victoria, Melbourne surprisingly has the the second lowest vaccination rate in the state with just 24.5 per cent, slightly above Greater Dandenong (pictured, Melburnians wait in line to get vaccinated)

This upmarket local government area covers Gordon and St Ives, where there are zero active cases of Covid

This upmarket local government area covers Gordon and St Ives, where there are zero active cases of Covid

In the Woollahra council area, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, 51.4 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated with 73.6 per cent having received a first dose. Darling Point (pictured) on Sydney Harbour is home to just one active case

In the Woollahra council area, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, 51.4 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated with 73.6 per cent having received a first dose. Darling Point on Sydney Harbour is home to just one active case

Lowest vaccination rates in each Australian state 

STATE, AREAS, SINGLE DOSE AND DOUBLE DOSE %

New South Wales: 

Edward River (41.7%, 26.4%)

Balranald (43.9%, 27.2%) 

Muswellbrook (47.1%, 21.7%)

Byron (47.2%, 25.5%)

Victoria:

Melbourne (39.3%, 24.5%)

Hume (40.8%, 22.4%)

Whittlesea (43.2%, 25.6%)

Greater Dandenong (43.2%, 24.1%)  

Queensland: 

Cherbourg (19.3%, 4.6%)

Isaac (23.5%, 10.7%)

Yarrabah (24.4%, 8.3%)

South Australia: 

Grant (14.5%, 5.7%)

Playford (37%, 22.1%)

Adelaide Plains (39%, 22.9%)

Western Australia: 

Chapman Valley (28%, 14.2%)

Coolgardie (28.6%, 14.9%)

Tasmania:   

Southern Midlands (44.49%, 29.9%)

Brighton (45%, 32.7%)

Kentish (45.5%, 27.5%)

 

But some pockets are well ahead with 47.2 per cent fully vaccinated in Darwin, with 69.7 per cent having had one jab.

Hobart did even better with 49.2 per cent fully vaccinated and 66.1 per cent having had one dose. 

Victoria's Surf Coast, taking in the Great Ocean Road and Torquay, had a 48.3 per cent double vaccination rate, with 73.1 per cent having had their first shot.

But while some ritzy neighbourhoods are well on their way to freedom, other areas particularly in remote regions are falling behind.

Grant in the southeast corner of South Australia had a double vaccination rate of just 5.7 per cent with only 14.5 per cent having received a first dose.

The jab rate in Cherbourg, 250km northwest of Brisbane in Queensland, is even lower with just 4.6 per cent of residents fully dosed.

Some areas are well ahead with 47.2 per cent fully vaccinated in Darwin and 69.7 per cent having had one jab (pictured, a Darwin resident during a snap three-day lockdown on August 16)

Some areas are well ahead with 47.2 per cent fully vaccinated in Darwin and 69.7 per cent having had one jab (pictured, a Darwin resident during a snap three-day lockdown on August 16)

Pockets of Western Australia with high population of vulnerable Indigenous Australians are also falling behind the rest of the country with the Chapman Valley and Coolgardie both having just over 14 per cent full coverage.

In Victoria, Melbourne surprisingly has the the second lowest vaccination rate in the state with just 24.5 per cent double dosed, slightly above Greater Dandenong, despite being in its sixth lockdown since the pandemic began.

Meanwhile in the NSW Upper Hunter, Muswellbrook has seen the lowest take up of the vaccine with just 21.7 per cent of residents double-dosed.

The state reported a record 1,290 cases on Monday with 80 per cent of new infections in Sydney's west and south-west, where people have less ability to be able to work from home.

NSW reported a record 1,290 cases on Monday with 80 per cent of new infections in Sydney's west and south-west, where people have less ability to be able to work from home (pictured, people wait in line outside a coronavirus disease vaccination clinic in Bankstown)

NSW reported a record 1,290 cases on Monday with 80 per cent of new infections in Sydney's west and south-west, where people have less ability to be able to work from home (pictured, people wait in line outside a coronavirus disease vaccination clinic in Bankstown)

Hobart (pictured) did even better with 49.2 per cent fully vaccinated and 66.1 per cent having had two doses

Hobart did even better with 49.2 per cent fully vaccinated and 66.1 per cent having had two doses

Overall vaccination rates in Australian Territories 

STATE, AREA, SINGLE AND DOUBLE DOSE %

Northern Territory: 

Litchfield (33.4%, 20.8%)

Palmerston (52.2%, 33.6%)

Darwin (69.7%, 47.2%)  

ACT:   

Entire region (63.4%, 40.3%)

 

The different demographics of suburbs in those areas have seen the virus passed along in essential workplaces before being unknowingly taken home to extended families. 

In Guildford, there are 820 active cases, with just 28.4 per cent of people in the overlapping Cumberland local government area fully vaccinated. 

Blacktown is home to 445 active cases but 35.4 per cent of residents have had two doses. 

The Ku-ring-gai and Woollahra council areas also fall within safe Liberal Party seats at a state and federal level. 

In Sydney's north, Mosman (49.9 per cent), Hornsby (48.1 per cent) and Hunters Hill (48.3 per cent) are also nearing the 50 per cent vaccination mark.

Sydney's south-west and west is still suffering the highest Covid rates, but vaccine number are on their way up (pictured, a resident in Bankstown sporting a face mask on Monday)

Sydney's south-west and west is still suffering the highest Covid rates, but vaccine number are on their way up (pictured, a resident in Bankstown sporting a face mask on Monday)

A grocery in Sydney's locked-down Bankstown assorts mandarins (pictured) as millions battle through the extended restrictions

A grocery in Sydney's locked-down Bankstown assorts mandarins as millions battle through the extended restrictions

Mosman council had just four active Covid cases, while Hornsby Shire Council had 47 active infections, concentrated in Hornsby, Thornleigh, Pennant Hills and Beecroft but zero cases in Berowra, Mount Kuring-gai and Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River.

The Murray River Council on the Victorian border is also close at 49.8 per cent.

They are well ahead of the Wingecarribee council covering the Southern Highlands (44.4 per cent), Sydney's Northern Beaches (40.6 per cent), the Australian Capital Territory (40.3 per cent), North Sydney (42.6 per cent) and Willoughby in Ms Berejiklian's electorate (42.8 per cent).

There were also 73 Covid cases in Victoria on Monday, along with 12 more infections in the ACT.

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