Asian Population in Australia? Perth and Melbourne? (universities, living in)

[bgreen4080]

What is the Asian population like in size and in ethnicity

in Melbourne and Perth?


in comparison

to Vancouver and San Francisco

(both around 35% asian)..

thanks!

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by bgreen4080

What is the Asian population like in size and in ethnicity

in Melbourne and Perth?


in comparison

to Vancouver and San Francisco

(both around 35% asian)..

thanks!

You can go to Australian Bureau of Statistics and add up all the people born in Asian countries, but there is no way to identify the precise number of Australian born people of Asian ancestry. Then there's the parent's place of birth. Roughly, though, Australia is 10% Asian...both Perth and Melbourne are about 18%, I believe. Any reason you want to know?

[bgreen4080]

I am asian..

and am from the Bay Area which has a large Asian population..

looking to move to a city with similar diversity..

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by bgreen4080

I am asian..

and am from the Bay Area which has a large Asian population..

looking to move to a city with similar diversity..

Can you be more specific? Asian is such a diverse term. I think you'll love Melbourne, it has a big and vibrant Chinatown and plenty of oriental supermarkets. The former Lord Mayor of Melbourne was Asian Australian himself. My parents were from Southeast Asia so I guess I am Asian Australian, Perth is pretty Asian but it has nothing like Melbourne's Chinatown.

[bgreen4080]

i am chinese

i heard auckland has the biggest asian population (18%)

outside

of vancouver, san francisco (both around 35%, mostly chinese) and hawaii (56% asian, mostly japanese, filipino, and polynesian)

excluding asian countries of course..

melbourne i heard was around 10% (guessing mostly chinese)
wellington the same?

and Perth, I couldn't find data on...

although climate wise...

all the other cities except Perth
have a tremendous amount of cloudy days and rain 3/4ths of the year...

which would be a deal killer for me...

DunedIn I read is incredibly cold and isolated...southern tip of new zealand..

[bgreen4080]

oh...i forgot Toronto...which I heard is like 25 percent asian, mostly chinese..


but it snows there 6 months out of the year?

and oppressive humidity during the summer

and lots of concreate and very fast paced...at least from what i have

heard and read

[§AB]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

The former Lord Mayor of Melbourne was Asian Australian himself.

Regarding the former Mayor.......wouldn't learning the English language be a prerequisite for taking the city's top job?

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by §AB

Regarding the former Mayor.......wouldn't learning the English language be a prerequisite for taking the city's top job?

I have to agree with ya there SAB, lol...

[Vichel]

Originally Posted by bgreen4080

and Perth, I couldn't find data on...

although climate wise...

all the other cities except Perth
have a tremendous amount of cloudy days and rain 3/4ths of the year...

I don't notice too many Asians in Perth, not when compared to many other cities. Particularly not in outer suburbs. I notice most in the downtown area and nearby suburbs. Quite a few Chinese students. So why don't you come and add to the diversity? If Asians worry about the lack of diversity in Perth and don't come, then we'll never get any.

Weather is very sunny here. So much sun and blue skies that when it rains, it feels like some sort of miracle has occurred. I used to live in Vancouver where there was too much of the stuff. And far too many grey days. Depressing. Melbourne's more diverse and fun but very grey too.

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by Vichel

I don't notice too many Asians in Perth, not when compared to many other cities. Particularly not in outer suburbs. I notice most in the downtown area and nearby suburbs. Quite a few Chinese students. So why don't you come and add to the diversity? If Asians worry about the lack of diversity in Perth and don't come, then we'll never get any.

Weather is very sunny here. So much sun and blue skies that when it rains, it feels like some sort of miracle has occurred. I used to live in Vancouver where there was too much of the stuff. And far too many grey days. Depressing. Melbourne's more diverse and fun but very grey too.

Of course each ethnicity is distributed differently in Perth like any city. It depends a lot on WHERE in each city as in which city.

Perth has it's fair share of overseas born (actually the most of any capital, surprisingly) but the proportion of those who are Asian is less than Sydney or Melbourne due to the many British and South Africans.

Anyway, certain areas like the Southern and Southeastern suburbs of Perth (a belt from Winthrop in the east, to Gosnells in the east, with concentrations in Winthrop, Leeming, Willeton and Thornlie in particular) have many Asian people, but those are mostly South East Asians. The immediate northern suburbs from North Perth to Marangaroo etc have a lot of Vietnamese people. Parts like Joondalup, Cockburn or Midland don't really have many east Asians at all. Chinese and other East Asians are more evenly distributed, with many living in Bentley, Murdoch, Nedlands near the universities. Some parts of Melville have so many Asians it sometimes feels like Asia. Especially Indonesians, I notice, who tend to stick within their own cliques and speak Indonesian instead of English. Since a lot are students they don't really integrate that much.