The residents of Tea Gardens – Hawks Nest, near Port Stephens on the New South Wales coast, were officially Australia's oldest, with a median age of 61.0 years in 2015.
Note that the city with the highest median age is also The Villages, Florida, at 66.4 years, and the city with the highest total population of seniors is of course the New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan statistical area, possibly because it also has the highest population in the country.
Hunters Hill has the distinction of being the oldest surviving garden suburb in Australia.
Tokyo Kanto Metropolitan Area in Japan is the city with the oldest population in the world. Home to 8.7 million people aged 65 or older, seniors make up 23% of the city's total population. On the other hand, the USA only has 16.8% of older residents.
Ageing and health in China. China has one of the fastest growing ageing populations in the world.
A coastal town located on the east bank of the mouth of the Tamar River, George Town is Australia's third oldest European settlement and Australia's oldest town.
Newcastle: Australia's second oldest settlement.
The first settlement, at Sydney, consisted of about 850 convicts and their Marine guards and officers, led by Governor Arthur Phillip. They arrived at Botany Bay in the "First Fleet" of 9 transport ships accompanied by 2 small warships, in January, 1788.
Sardinia, Italy
Sardinia, the first Blue Zone discovered, has 534 people who are one hundred or older, or 33.6 centenarians for every 100,000 inhabitants. Diet (some residents single out the island's wine), a low-stress lifestyle, and a strong sense of community all contribute to the longevity of Sardinia's residents.
The average age in global comparison
Among the 126 countries evaluated here, the USA are in 50th place with an average age of 38.5 years, led by Japan at 48.6 years. Niger has the lowest average age at only 14.8 years.
China ranks number 2 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population. The population density in China is 152 per Km2 (393 people per mi2). The median age in China is 39.0 years.
In 1835, they established the beginning of the renowned Melbourne city, about 47 years after Sydney.
Aboriginal people are known to have occupied mainland Australia for at least 65,000 years. It is widely accepted that this predates the modern human settlement of Europe and the Americas. Increasingly sophisticated dating methods are helping us gain a more accurate understanding of how people came to be in Australia.
The town is an ex-Hydro village and now a residence for Inland Fisheries Services (IFS) and a Tasmania Police station. It is known for its exceptional fishing at nearby Great Lake and hosts several trout fishing events. Liawenee is the coldest permanently-inhabited place in Australia.
The Kiwirrkurra Community is known as the most remote in the country. It is located in the Gibson Desert, nearly 430 miles west of Alice Springs and over 745 miles east of Port Hedland.
Pillinger, Tasmania
Pillinger is an abandoned town on Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania's west coast. It was constructed in 1897 by Irish prospector James Crotty, who founded North Mount Lyell Company, and it quickly became a thriving port.
Byron Bay, Port Fairy, Margaret River, Port Douglas, Airlie Beach, Quorn, Alice Springs, Katherine, Rottnest Island, and Denmark are the 10 best country towns to live in Australia.
The residents of Mungallala, in Queensland's mid south, take home an average salary of a little over $3,000 a year according to the Australian Taxation Office, making the tiny rural town the poorest in Australia.
The municipal council of Sydney was incorporated in 1842 and became Australia's first city. Gold was discovered in the colony in 1851 and with it came thousands of people seeking to make money. Sydney became one of the most multicultural cities in the world after the mass migration following the Second World War.
China's population is aging faster than almost all other countries in modern history. In 2050, the proportion of Chinese over retirement age will become 39 percent of the total population according to projections. China is rapidly aging at an earlier stage of its development than other countries.
Asia and Europe are home to some of the world's oldest populations, those ages 65 and above. At the top is Japan at 28 percent, followed by Italy at 23 percent. Finland, Portugal, and Greece round out the top five at just under 22 percent.
Share of population over the age of 65 in European countries 2021. In 2022, Italy was the European country with the largest share of elderly population, with 23.8 percent of the total population aged 65 years and older.