If you’re struggling to find a date this weekend, it might have more to do with where you live than your personality.
Results from the 2016 census show the hotspots around the nation for single men and women, but we aren’t living close enough to meet.
The data highlights the dilemma that popular bachelor hotspots are no where near the areas where there is a large number of single women.
The ratio of single men and women in Australia aged 25 to 34 is 117 men to 100 women, making it difficult to meet someone in your area (stock image)
The ratio of single men to single women in Australia, in the 25 to 34 age range, is another reason finding a date might prove difficult, with 117 single men to 100 single women.
Nationally, there are 564,000 single women and 658,000 single men aged 25 to 34.
If you’re looking for a single guy, your best chance would be to move to Perth, where there are 58,000 single men and 46,000 single women.
While the numbers show the big city picture, they also pinpoint post codes with the highest number of singles.
Sydney’s suburb of Lakemba has the highest ratio of single men, 292, to 100 single women, while Double Bay has 100 single women to 65 single men.
The ratio of single men to single women in Australia is 117 to 100, proving difficult to find a date (stock image)
If you’re looking for a man in Melbourne, Fawkner is the bachelor hotspot with 209 single men per 100 single women.
While those looking for a single woman in Melbourne should head to the bayside suburb of Elwood, where the ratio sits at just 71 single men to 100 single women.
The data is tabled by The Australian, which suggests single ladies take the No 19 tram up Sydney Road in the direction of Fawkner, for a good shot at finding love.
The men in Brisbane are hiding out in Coopers Plains according to the data, with 150 men per 100 women, while the single women seem to be in Deception Bay, with 100 women per 74 men.
It might be easier to travel to find a date than take your chances in your area (stock image)
If a farmer takes your fancy, head to the South Australian town of Lucindale, a farming community near Naracoorte, where there are 15 single men aged 25 to 34 and no single women.
In Brunswick Heads, near Byron Bay, there are 208 single women and only 181 single men.
For all capital cities across Australia, there are 119 single men in the target age range to 100 single women.
Sydney tops that with 120 single men to women, while Perth takes first place for the highest ratio with 126 single men to 100 women.