Dandenong North, Greater Dandenong

What Dandenong North speaks at home

Dandenong North, in Greater Dandenong, is a suburb of many languages: about 12,000 people spoke something other than English at home at the 2021 Census. Greater Dandenong has a higher share than Dandenong North. The census lists 96 languages spoken at home here.

Residents
22,244
Speak another language
55.2%-0.6%
Languages spoken
96
Born overseas
49.3%

What are Dandenong North's most spoken languages?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Greek
    941-1.4%
  2. 02
    Sinhalese
    882+18.4%
  3. 03
    Vietnamese
    861+13.6%
  4. 04
    Arabic
    847-12.3%
  5. 05
    Serbian
    774-2.1%
  6. 06
    Tamil
    751-4.8%
  7. 07
    Hazaraghi
    672+11.4%
  8. 08
    Mandarin
    514+9.4%
  9. 09
    Italian
    448-24.6%
  10. 10
    Punjabi
    409+23.9%

Why doesn't one language lead in Dandenong North?

Greek leads with about 940 people. Each of 16 languages reaches one resident in 100.

Which countries are Dandenong North's residents from?

India is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    India
    1,463+13.9%
  2. 02
    Sri Lanka
    1,463+4.4%
  3. 03
    Afghanistan
    801-8.4%
  4. 04
    Vietnam
    621+18.3%
  5. 05
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    397+3.4%
  6. 06
    Greece
    386+10.6%
  7. 07
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    368-8.5%
  8. 08
    Italy
    362-15.4%
  9. 09
    England
    329-19.0%
  10. 10
    Lebanon
    296-6.0%

Is Dandenong North more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for Australia as a whole.

Dandenong North
55.2%
Greater Dandenong
63.8%
Australia
21.3%

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

What religions are reported in Dandenong North?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    10,248-8.1%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    4,179+19.9%
  3. 03
    Islam
    2,900+7.7%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    1,633+9.7%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    1,271-0.5%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    15+114%

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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Dandenong North is part of Greater Dandenong, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.