By Casey Neill
More than three quarters of Greater Dandenong residents have parents who were both born overseas – more than double the Australian average.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed the 76.4 per cent figure as part the results of last year’s census on Tuesday 27 June.
They revealed that 34.4 per cent of Australians said both of their parents were born overseas.
In Greater Dandenong, 11.9 per cent of residents were born to two parents who were born in Australia, compared to 47.3 per cent Australia-wide.
Only 35.8 per cent of people in the municipality were born in Australia, compared to 66.7 per cent of Victorians.
Vietnam, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan were the most common birthplaces outside of Australia.
The average Greater Dandenong resident is 35 years old – slightly lower than Australia’s average of 38 – and there is 2.9 people in their household.
Just over 19 per cent of residents are Catholic, while 16.9 per cent registered as non-religious, 14.8 per cent as Buddhist and 12.5 per cent as Muslim.
In Keysborough, 14.6 per cent of people have Chinese ancestry, while in Dandenong 9.9 per cent have Afghan heritage.
English ancestry is the most common in Noble Park, at 10.6 per cent, and Vietnamese leads the way in Springvale with 21.2 per cent.
Median weekly personal incomes also differ greatly from suburb to suburb, from $580 in Keysborough to $483 in Noble Park, $460 in Dandenong and $409 in Springvale.
