By Olivia Condous
Melton is known as a booming region, filled with diversity and hopeful families finding their homes. The Australian Bureau of Statistics census survey has shed more light on the people who make up the City of Melton.
According to the 2021 census data, the average Melton resident is a married female aged between 35 to 39 years old, who was born in Australia but both of her parents were born overseas. She is of Catholic religion and has children. The average Melton resident has a household income of $1887, lives in a house with four or more bedrooms and has a mortgage. Read on to learn more Melton statistics from the latest census and how the figures have changed over the last five years.
Population: 178,960 – 32% ↑
Private dwellings: 60,338 – 29% ↑
Heritage:
Most common ancestries: Australian, English, Indian, Maltese and Italian
8% of residents born in India, 179% ↑
3017 residents born in Vietnam, 61.5% ↑
54.6% of residents have both parents born overseas
Religion:
6.4% of residents affiliated with Islam, 110% ↑
5.3% of residents affiliated with Sikhism, 272% ↑
Languages:
45% of households speak a non-English language
5.9% speak Punjabi, 307% ↑
2.5% speak Vietnamese
2% speak Arabic
2% speak Hindi
