People living in the NSW Hunter Valley and on the state's Central Coast are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, research shows.
Nearly 38,000 cancer cases were recorded in the region between 2006 and 2010, with the second highest - 33, 847 - found in central and eastern Sydney, according to the Social Health Atlas.
The Murrumbidgee local government area in the state's Riverina had the least number of cancer diagnoses with 7177 reported in the same period.
Diabetes in people aged over 18 was most prominent in Sydney's central and eastern suburbs with 64,107 reported diagnoses between 2011 and 2012, with the least number - 9683 reported in Murrumbidgee.
The state's Hunter and Central Coast reported the most diagnoses of circulatory system diseases in people aged two years and over, asthma cases in people all ages, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in all ages, musculoskeletal system diseases in all ages and arthritis in all ages between 2011 and 2012.
Central and eastern Sydney had the most diagnoses of high blood pressure between 2014 and 2015 for people aged over 18 and the highest number of overweight people in the same period but the Hunter and Central Coast recorded the highest number of obese people.
People generally live longer in northern Sydney, where the reported median age at death was 85 between 2010 and 2014, compared to 79 in the Nepean Blue Mountains area, western Sydney and south western Sydney.
