Sydney ageing population: North shore, eastern suburbs face aged care crisis by 2041

Sydney’s rapidly ageing population will be disproportionately concentrated in Northern Sydney, the eastern suburbs, the north-west and the Blue Mountains, which experts have warned will put intense pressure on the aged care system and leave an estimated 60,000 without adequate support by 2041.

For every 100 working aged people today, there are 29 people over the age of 65. But Sydney is experiencing a “silver tsunami” and a declining birthrate, which means this ratio could increase to 42 per 100 people by 2070, according to a report by independent think tank Committee for Sydney.

Almost one in three Mosman and Blue Mountains residents will be over the age of 65 by 2041. The Northern Beaches, Ku-ring-gai, and Hornsby local government areas will similarly have older Sydneysiders making up