Popular regions for Melbourne's Chinese community. The City of Banyule is located between 7 and 21 km north east of Melbourne. 21 suburbs make up Banyule including Bundoora, Heidelberg and Ivanhoe.
Home to the Melbourne's largest Chinese population is the suburb of Box Hill, located less than 15km east of the CBD. In Box Hill, over 60% of residents are either born in China or with Chinese ancestry (35.4 per cent Chinese ancestry and 27.6 per cent China-born).
The China-born* population is one of the largest birthplace groups in Australia with most living in large cities, such as Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
In Greater Melbourne at the 2016 census, 63.3% of residents were born in Australia. The other most common countries of birth were India (3.6%), Mainland China (3.5%), England (3%), Vietnam (1.8%) and New Zealand (1.8%). As of the 2016 census, 62% of Melburnians speak only English at home.
Point Cook has emerged as the country's most multicultural suburb based on the birthplaces of its population. An analysis of the latest 2021 census data released last week by population consultancy .
Shenzhen, a city in southeastern China, is one of the billionaire capitals of the world. The city is home to some of China's wealthiest people, many of whom founded massive tech companies.
1. Sydney: The largest Chinatown. Sydney's Chinatown is Australia's largest and is defined by its distinctly oriental architecture, streetlamps and archways.
New South Wales and Victoria both have high proportions of the Asian-born population. Almost half of Asian-born Australians aged 15 years and over, and who arrived after 1980, lived in NSW, where the most common countries of birth were China, Viet Nam and the Philippines.
Canberra is Australia's leading 'smart city', providing its residents with top ratings for a range of quality indicators, including housing affordability, public transport, employment, and community participation, according to new Victoria University research.
Victoria's top 10 most disadvantaged suburbs
They include Sunbury, Langwarrin, Mornington, Ringwood, Cheltenham, Preston and Pascoe Vale. Government departments, town planners and social researchers often use this Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAL) to identify areas of need.
Victoria's 3142 postcode, which comprises Toorak and Hawksburn and sits just five kilometres southeast of Melbourne's CBD, is home to more of Australia's richest millionaires and billionaires than any other suburb in the country.
As far back as the 1850s, slums existed in inner city Melbourne. Slum dwellers lived a squalid existence. Often, they had no bathrooms, or sewerage. They lived in ramshackle housing, with leaky roofs and holes in the walls.
The Victorian gold rush eventually waned, causing a shift from rural living and an influx of people migrating into metropolitan Melbourne, particularly Little Bourke Street, which already had a predominantly Chinese population.
The closeness of the wholesalers means the restaurants and retailers nearby don't have to invest in a lot of onsite storage at their locations, keeping their own costs low — so low that some shoppers falsely believe cheap Chinatown produce is poor quality.
And although China is also the third largest country by landmass, 94 percent of people in the country live on just 43 percent of the land. The YouTube channel RealLifeLore explains that the majority of the population is divided by a diagonal line from Heihe in the northeast to Tengchong in the southwest.
But even billionaires and celebrities aren't safe from its extreme lockdown. It's known as a city that never sleeps and where Chinese elites reside.
Wealthy People:
The rich people of China ate very well. They ate grains like rice, wheat and millet. They also ate plenty of meat including pork, chicken, duck, goose and dog. Vegetables included yams, soya beans, broad beans and turnip as well as spring onions and garlic.