The numbers show that in the East Pilbara there are 349.3 males for every 100 females, the highest sex ratio in the country. In Berrimah just outside Darwin there are almost twice as many males as females.

However WA and NT are the only states where males outnumber females. In Australia as a whole there are 99.1 males for every 100 females.

Females in the Highlands need not worry until they reach their mid 30s. After age 35, it is only in the 65-69 age group where males again slightly outnumber females; the greatest mismatch occurs in the late 40s.

And the problem is only getting worse, with the statistics from 2009 revealing there were 94.4 males for every 100 females back then, but only 92.7 now.

This is despite the region's population increasing by almost 2500 since to 2009 to 47,563, with Bowral growing the fastest with about 800 more people.

Most of that population growth has occurred in over 65 age group, which now accounts for 24.1 per cent of our residents, up from 19.7 per cent in 2009. This has pulled up the median age to 46.1 from 43.6 five years ago.

The areas with the oldest median age in Australia are Tea Gardens-Hawkes Nest, and Tuncurry, where the median age is 60.

If you are a female looking for love, do not move to Canberra. That city's suburbs Deakin and Page have the lowest sex ratios in Australia, with only 81 and 83 males per 100 females respectively.

Also in the ACT, Action has the youngest median age - 23 - and the highest proportion of iGeneration in Australia at 76 per cent, perhaps not surprising as this is where the Australian National University is based.