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It takes less than 25 minutes to drive from Bidwill to Cherrybrook on the M7 motorway.
But thereâs a yawning gap between those two Sydney neighbourhoods on the most basic of indicators: lifespan.
Bidwill resident Joyce Davison has lost her husband and two adult children since 2016.
Credit:Wolter Peeters
In Bidwillâs local public health area the median age of death was 69 years between 2014 and 2018, analysis by the Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) at Torrens University shows.
But up the road at Cherrybrook the figure was 88 years.
That 19-year longevity gap is emblematic of striking disparities in health and economic welfare across relatively small distances in Greater Sydney.