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Cairnlea, Brimbank

What Cairnlea speaks at home

In Cairnlea, about 6,800 people speak a language other than English at home, and Vietnamese leads by a wide margin, the 2021 Census shows. Behind it sits Chinese. Cairnlea's share is above Australia as a whole, at more than three times the rate.

Residents
9,932
Speak another language
68.9%+3.1%
Languages spoken
72
Born overseas
50.7%

How many people in Cairnlea speak Vietnamese?

Vietnamese at home

32%

No other language comes close; Chinese is next.

Which other languages are spoken in Cairnlea?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Vietnamese
    3,145+13.4%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    397-8.1%
  3. 03
    Tagalog
    246-16.9%
  4. 04
    Macedonian
    240-14.3%
  5. 05
    Bosnian
    195+18.2%
  6. 06
    Punjabi
    179+1.1%
  7. 07
    Arabic
    175+15.1%
  8. 08
    Filipino
    152-25.1%
  9. 09
    Hakka
    140+12.0%
  10. 10
    Spanish
    139-2.8%

Is Cairnlea more multilingual than Brimbank?

Cairnlea's share is above Brimbank, at 1.2 times the rate.

Cairnlea
68.9%
Australia
21.3%
Brimbank
56.9%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Which countries are Cairnlea's residents from?

Overseas-born residents make up just over one in two residents, most often from Vietnam.

  1. 01
    Vietnam
    2,101+14.4%
  2. 02
    Philippines
    447-13.7%
  3. 03
    India
    265-3.3%
  4. 04
    North Macedonia
    159
  5. 05
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    152+44.8%
  6. 06
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    128-9.9%
  7. 07
    Pakistan
    120+26.3%
  8. 08
    Malta
    1140%
  9. 09
    Timor-Leste
    107-2.7%
  10. 10
    New Zealand
    102-11.3%

What religions are reported in Cairnlea?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    4,026-4.4%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    2,186+31.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    1,958-2.1%
  4. 04
    Islam
    981+28.6%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    233-5.3%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    4+33.3%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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