Region. Mortgage stress

The Fairfield-Liverpool district ranks as the nation's worst-performing mortgage area, then outer south-western suburbs, including Macquarie Fields, Minto, Camden and Narellan. In these areas between 2.5 per cent and 2.77 per cent of borrowers failed to make their required mortgage payments.The next worst region was the north-west - including Penrith, Mount Druitt, Blacktown and Richmond - where the figure was 2.37 per cent.