Sydney's South Asian community is centred on the west and north-west: Harris Park and Parramatta, where Wigram Street has been the community's high street for two decades, then out through Westmead, Toongabbie, Girraween, Blacktown, Quakers Hill, Schofields, Kellyville and Glenwood, with a second concentration through Lakemba, Punchbowl and Bankstown.
Housing costs push younger couples further along the north-west and south-west growth corridors each year, which is why relocation and commute come up in Sydney matches more than in any other city.
Sydney's Malayali community is concentrated in the west and south-west — Blacktown, Mount Druitt, Quakers Hill, Liverpool and Campbelltown — following the hospitals, aged care and health services that employ so much of it. Syro-Malabar, Orthodox and Marthoma parishes hold regular Malayalam-language services, and Onam sadhyas run in community halls across the west each year.