Blackburn North, Whitehorse

What Blackburn North speaks at home

The 2021 Census found Chinese spoken at home by about 1,600 people in Blackburn North, well ahead of any other language. Greek comes next. Whitehorse has much the same share. For the wider picture, Whitehorse has a page of its own.

Residents
7,557
Speak another language
37.8%+11.9%
Languages spoken
45
Born overseas
34.2%

How far does Chinese lead in Blackburn North?

Chinese at home

21%

Mandarin is the larger variety here.

What's spoken in Blackburn North besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    1,047+26.9%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    485+4.8%
  3. 03
    Greek
    243+4.7%
  4. 04
    Italian
    101-31.3%
  5. 05
    Vietnamese
    99-3.9%
  6. 06
    Hindi
    79-4.8%
  7. 07
    Korean
    68+65.9%
  8. 08
    Punjabi
    63+57.5%
  9. 09
    Persian (excluding Dari)
    59-36.6%
  10. 10
    Indonesian
    47+23.7%

Where does Blackburn North sit against Victoria?

The share speaking another language is 1.4 times the figure for Victoria.

Blackburn North
37.8%
Whitehorse
40.2%
Victoria
26.6%

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

Where were Blackburn North's residents born?

Among residents born overseas, China leads.

  1. 01
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    794+9.7%
  2. 02
    Malaysia
    223+26.7%
  3. 03
    India
    220+31.0%
  4. 04
    England
    151+2.7%
  5. 05
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    119+21.4%
  6. 06
    Vietnam
    110+12.2%
  7. 07
    Greece
    95+2.2%
  8. 08
    Sri Lanka
    80+11.1%
  9. 09
    Iran
    67-26.4%
  10. 10
    Italy
    66-24.1%

What's Blackburn North's religious mix?

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    3,314+26.6%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    3,312-9.2%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    299+0.7%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    213+24.6%
  5. 05
    Islam
    95-14.4%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    5

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