Police are appealing for help in identifying a man who punched, robbed and sexually assaulted a woman on a residential street in Burwood on Sunday morning.

The 24-year-old woman was walking along Selborne Street after midnight when she heard someone behind her.

Police are appealing for information after a 24-year-old woman was attacked in a Burwood street. Credit:Georgia Matts

She was then allegedly assaulted by a man who punched her several times in the face before demanding her bank card.

She handed him the card before he dragged her across the road and sexually assaulted her, police said.