New figures show some of the better-off suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne have shed thousands of residents since the pandemic.
Well-off parts of Sydney and Melbourne have lost tens of thousands of residents since COVID-19 as regional Australia bears the brunt of the nation’s ageing population.
The ABS figures show that by 2023 there had been a recovery in population growth for the nation’s two largest cities, but that was not being spread evenly across their suburbs. In Melbourne, outside the city centre which lost thousands of university students, the city’s inner north and east councils all had fewer residents in 2023 than they did before the pandemic started.
In Melbourne, the outer suburbs of Wyndham and Melton added almost 75,000 residents over the same period. About a quarter of capital city residents are aged over 55, while 34 per cent of regional Australians are over 55.
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