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22nd of 542 local government areas for language diversity

What Casey speaks at home

The 2021 Census found about 148,000 people in Casey speaking a language other than English at home, with Punjabi and Sinhalese out in front. The census recorded 114 languages with at least ten speakers each. Casey runs ahead of Victoria on this measure.

Residents
360,635
Speak another language
148,140
Languages at home
165
Change since 2016
+43.9%

Which communities in Casey have grown since 2016?

Among the five biggest languages, Punjabi and Hazaraghi have grown by more than half since 2016. The total speaking a language other than English at home rose by more than a quarter between the two censuses.

  1. 01
    Hazaraghi
    11,760+201%
  2. 02
    Gujarati
    3,046+162%
  3. 03
    Punjabi
    16,852+155%
  4. 04
    Telugu
    1,769+152%
  5. 05
    Marathi
    683+136%
  6. 06
    Nepali
    738+124%
  7. 07
    Swahili
    403+104%
  8. 08
    Shona
    593+95.1%

Which languages are spoken most in Casey today?

By number of speakers, these three lead.

Punjabi

16,852 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than doubled.

Sinhalese

12,917 speakers

The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Hazaraghi

11,760 speakers

Its speaker count has more than tripled since 2016.

Has Casey overtaken Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language at home is 1.9 times the national share. Only eight councils in Victoria rank higher.

Casey
41.1%
Australia
21.3%
Victoria
26.6%

Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.

See where Casey sits on the diversity index.

Which languages have the most speakers in Casey?

Speakers at home, with the change since 2016. Broad ABS categories such as "Chinese, nfd" count towards the totals but aren't listed, so the shares can add up to more than the languages shown.

  1. 01
    Punjabi
    16,852+155%
  2. 02
    Sinhalese
    12,917+44.3%
  3. 03
    Hazaraghi
    11,760+201%
  4. 04
    Mandarin
    8,008+39.4%
  5. 05
    Dari
    7,237+11.3%
  6. 06
    Hindi
    6,439+36.9%
  7. 07
    Tamil
    5,933+47.3%
  8. 08
    Malayalam
    5,414+77.5%
  9. 09
    Arabic
    5,134+17.7%
  10. 10
    Spanish
    3,172-3.3%

Where in Casey are other languages most common?

Suburbs differ a lot, from Lyndhurst at the top to Warneet at the bottom.

Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.

What do birthplaces show about Casey?

India is the most common birthplace after Australia.

Country of birth

40.5% born overseas, across 154 countries.

  1. 01
    India
    32,323+80.4%
  2. 02
    Sri Lanka
    15,017+33.8%
  3. 03
    Afghanistan
    14,673+71.8%
  4. 04
    New Zealand
    8,013+11.9%
  5. 05
    England
    7,957-7.1%
  6. 06
    Philippines
    7,014+54.9%
  7. 07
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    5,751+37.3%
  8. 08
    Pakistan
    4,243+83.5%
  9. 09
    Mauritius
    3,159+3.4%
  10. 10
    Cambodia
    2,155+34.4%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    142,127-2.3%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    104,547+41.9%
  3. 03
    Islam
    38,407+73.2%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    22,756+82.7%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    18,306+34.5%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    208+33.3%

How does Casey look on the map?

Casey shaded by the share of residents speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

How the headline share is counted: 41.1% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 18,856 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 46.3%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 43.3%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

Figures for Casey itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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