Hurstville, 16 kilometres south-west of the CBD, occupies a unique spot on Sydney's demographic map.

With more than half of its residents reporting Chinese ancestry, it is the only suburb across all of NSW where one community of non-English migrants outnumbers everyone else combined.

Based on figures from the last census, 52.5 per cent of Hurstville's population reported their heritage as Chinese. Other suburbs came close – Burwood (41 per cent), Eastwood (36.5 per cent) and Haymarket (36 per cent) – but none tipped the scales past halfway.