Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located rapidly east of the Sydney central matter district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government Place of the City of Sydney.

Darlinghurst is a densely populated suburb in the same way as the majority of residents blooming in apartments or terraced houses. Once a slum and red-light district, Darlinghurst has undergone urban renewal before the 1980s to become a cosmopolitan area made occurring of precincts. Places such as Victoria Street (which connects Darlinghurst to Potts Point in the north), Stanley Street (Little Italy) and Crown Street (Vintage and Retro Fashion) are known as culturally wealthy destinations. These high street areas are united by a network of lane-ways and street corners behind shops, cafes and bars.

Demographically, Darlinghurst is home to the highest percentage of generation X and Y in Australia. The majority of businesses in Darlinghurst are independently owned and operated small businesses with over 50% of all commercial to-do in the Place being consumer oriented: indie retail, food, drink, dining, leisure and personal services. Darlinghurst is also home to large number of off-street creative industries.

Darlinghurst’s main street is Oxford Street. This major Sydney road runs east from the south-eastern corner of Hyde Park through Darlinghurst and Paddington and terminates at Bondi Junction. Oxford Street is one of Sydney’s most well-known shopping and dining strips. The Darlinghurst decrease is well-known around the world as the middle of Sydney’s gay community, is the twelve-monthly parade route of the Sydney Mardi Gras and the spiritual birthplace of the LGBT rights movement. It is home to a number of prominent cheerful venues and businesses, while more broadly Darlinghurst is a middle of Sydney’s burgeoning little bar scene.

From the 1990s onwards Oxford Street began to garner a reputation for inborn Sydney’s primary “nightclub strip”, popular past both cheerful and straight clubbers, surpassing the notorious red-light district of Kings Cross in popularity. As a result of the influx of revellers, crime rates reportedly increased in the Place around 2007, particularly for assaults and robberies. This reported layer should be understood in terms of a extremely low background crime rate in East Sydney in general.

There are a number of named localities in and going on for Darlinghurst including Taylor Square, Three Saints Square, Kings Cross and confusingly moreover East Sydney. Locals have used this declare to lecture to to the area immediately on the subject of Stanley Street in the suburb’s west, however the title is used more broadly throughout the area from Woolloomooloo up to Taylor Square where the out of date Darlinghurst Gaol nevertheless has the words East Sydney in brass lettering above the main entrance. This is because from 1900 to 1969 the entire Place to the east of Sydney’s CBD, from the harbour to Redfern, was an electorate known as the Division of East Sydney.

Already in 1820 the complete ridge line running from Potts Point to Surry Hills was known as Eastern Hill.

Darlinghurst shares a postcode (2010) and an extensive soft southern connect with neighbouring suburb Surry Hills which, with Paddington to the east and Woolloomooloo, Rushcutters Bay and Potts Point to the north, comprise the metropolitan region of East Sydney. Although without help minutes walk away from the Sydney CBD, this region is geographically determined from it; separated from the more well known commercial middle by several landmarks: Central railway station, Hyde Park, St Mary’s Cathedral and The Domain.

East Sydney hosts some Famous restaurants.

Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs cover all the home from the east of Darlinghurst occurring to the Pacific Ocean.