Port Pirie resident Maureen Bairstow takes her Jaguar for a spin. Picture: Simon Cross Source: News Limited
AUSTRALIANS enjoy a lifestyle envied around the world but there are some areas of the country where life is simply better than others.
A News Limited analysis of official data and published research has pinpointed the places where locals live longest, stay healthiest, are more likely to be married, give the most to charity and pay the lowest tax.
The research shows there could well be something in the water in Sandgate, on the outskirts of Newcastle, with locals enjoying the longest life of any suburb in the nation.
Almost 13 of every 100 people in the quiet waterside location are aged 90 and over.
Not far behind, further down the NSW coast, is Worrowing Heights where 11 in every 100 live to a grand old age.
Port Pirie in South Australia and Rowes Bay in Queensland also hold the secret to long life.
Thousands of kilometres across the country in Northam in Western Australia, the locals may not live as long but they could well be our healthiest inhabitants.
The area, which offers bush trails, hot air ballooning and white water rafting, has the lowest likelihood of chronic diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis and osteoporosis.
Goondiwindi in Queensland is the next best health hotspot.
But if marriage is the key to happiness then maybe those living way up the WA coast in North West Cape may lay claim to our best place to live.
Three-quarters of the adults in the isolated and relaxed area are hitched the highest rate in the country, ahead of Sydney suburb The Ponds.
Cabramatta, in Sydney's south-west, is number one when it comes to big families.
There are 64 locals there with 10 and more children, putting it ahead of Springvale (61) and Reservoir (60) in Victoria.
Professor Stewart Lockie, from the ANU, believes happier and healthier communities are ones with community spirit and economic and cultural diversity.
"Happy communities have a dynamic feel. People feel it is a place worth visiting and staying,'' he said.
Professor Brenda Happell, from Central Queensland University, said areas away from the hustle and bustle of big city life usually offered health and lifestyle advantages as they are less stressful, slower paced and friendlier.
When it comes to giving up your hard earned to the tax man, the SA suburbs of Davoren Park and Elizabeth Downs are the tops, paying a national low of $5,754 average per taxpayer.
Doveton and Frankston in Victoria were next lowest.
And the most charitable taxpayers in the nation reside in the well-to-do Sydney eastern suburbs of Darling Point and Edgecliff, donating an average of $6,859.45.
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