Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 10
About
Welcome to Sydney Local Health District, one of the top
performing local health districts in New South Wales.
Our vision is excellence in health
and healthcare for all.
About Sydney Local Health District
With about 16,000 staff, our District is responsible
for the health and wellbeing of more than 740,000
people living within our boundaries, as well as
many more from rural and remote parts of NSW
and Australia. We also care for more than a million
people who come into our District each day to
work, study and visit.
Our District is located in the centre and inner
west of Sydney and is made up of the Local
Government Areas of the City of Sydney (part),
Inner West Council, Canterbury-Bankstown (part),
Canada Bay, Burwood and Strathfield. It covers
a geographic area of approximately 126 square
kilometres.
Sydney Local Health District is one of the most
densely populated Local Health Districts in
NSW and it is experiencing a period of rapid
transformation and growth.
In the last five years, the Sydney Local Health
District population has increased by 10.3 per cent
which is higher than the overall growth in NSW
(8.8 per cent). The population is expected to grow
a further 26.2 per cent from 2021 to 2036.
How we deliver our services
Sydney Local Health District is made up of
hospitals and health services delivered in
various locations in the community and also in
people’s homes. We also have a governing Board,
administrative, research and training and other
support services which enable us to deliver
excellent healthcare.
Our diverse communities
The traditional custodians of the land in Sydney
Local Health District are the Gadigal, Wangal and
Bediagal people of the EORA Nation. Around 1.1
per cent of the population identify as being of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage.
The District is rich in cultural and social diversity
and is home to a large number of established and
emerging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Communities. More than half of the District’s
population speak a language other than English at
home, including significant numbers of refugees,
asylum seekers and special humanitarian
entrants. Almost nine per cent of the District
population speaks little or no English.
The major languages spoken at home include
Chinese languages, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Italian
and Vietnamese. New and emerging languages
in the District include Bangla, Nepali, Rohingyan,
Mongolian and Urdu.
A feature of the District’s social diversity is our
proud lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex
and queer (LGBTIQ+) community. A number of our
suburbs have the highest proportions of same-sex
couples in Australia.
Sydney Local Health District is characterised by
socio-economic diversity, with pockets of both
extreme advantage and extreme disadvantage.
The District has a large population of people who
are homeless. More than 6000 people – 48 per
cent – of the people living in boarding houses and
hostels live in this District.
The population aged 70 years and over has grown
more than 19 per cent in the last five years and is
expected to grow by 67 per cent between 2022
and 2036. There are around 4500 people living in
residential aged care facilities.
More than 28,000 people with a disability live
in the District and there are over 53,000 unpaid
carers who provide support across the inner west.
Each year, almost 7900 babies are born to
mothers residing in the District.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016: Dept of Planning and Environment 2019
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