Gender divide: Australia's men and women capitals
QUIT looking for men and women in all the wrong places. Here's an official list on where guys and girls live in Australia.
QUIT looking for men and women in all the wrong places. Now there's an official list on where guys and girls live in Australia.
For women who like a man in uniform, odds are on your side if you are willing to head to remote outposts where the nation’s highest proportion of males can be found in major defence regions.
The Northern Territory is Australia’s man capital - men make up 84 per cent of the population in outer Darwin’s postcode of 0829, encompassing Holtze and Pinelands near Robertson Barracks.
Male-dominated industries such as mining also have higher than average populations of men. Telfer, a mine site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert, is another boy zone with men accounting for almost 80 per cent of the population.
Women in search of a mate could also head to Wooroloo, east of Perth, or Silverwater in western Sydney but the areas are home to jails which skew the figures.
Areas with higher than average concentrations of women are dominated by universities: Gatton College in Queensland (74.4 per cent), Charles Sturt University in New South Wales (64.3 per cent) and Latrobe University in Victoria ( 60.4 per cent).
But also high up on the list is Double Bay. The flashy 2028 locale is home to 2638 women - that's 56.3 per cent of the suburb's population, according to the figures, compiled from census data by Commsec.
Commsec chief economist Craig James told The Daily Telegraphthe higher proportion of women in Double Bay could reflect the gender gap in life expectancy.
"What I would presume for women is that it reflects the ageing of the population - it reflects the fact that females outlive men," Mr James said.
"And there are probably a larger number of older females in these places."
Mr James said it was to be expected that a large numbers of women on uni campuses dominated the list.
"A number of those universities do have courses that are more appealing to women than men," he said.
"But perhaps it's that women feel safer living on campus - they don't have to go backwards and forwards."
Double Bay business owner Danielle Chiel, who owns a boutique in the suburb’s fashion precinct Cross St, said she was not surprised by the data.
"There are lots of women in Double Bay," she said.
"We serve a lot of women - and men who come in and buy for women."
Colleague Lauryn Tinker, 27, said the man drought extended well beyond the boundaries of the eastern suburbs. "I think there's a serious man drought right across in Sydney in general," she said.
"That's what all my single girlfriends say."
MEN
Holtze, Northern Territory (84.1 per cent)
Wooroloo, Western Australia (81.1 per cent)
Telfer, Western Australia (77.7 per cent)
Keysbrook, Western Australia (74.7 per cent)
Cane, Onslow, Peedamulla, Western Australia (73.6 per cent)
WOMEN
Gatton College, Queensland (74.4 per cent)
Charles Sturt University, NSW (64.3 per cent)
Latrobe University, Victoria ( 60.4 per cent).
Macquarie University New South Wales (56.3 per cent)
Double Bay, New South Wales (56.3 per cent)