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Greater Dandenong
GPH100 Human Geography
Assignment 2: Report
By Natasha Worcester
Student ID: 19856917
Place
The subject of this report will be the the local government area (LGA) of the Greater City of Dandenong, established in 1994 in the state of Victoria, located approximately 34km south-east from the Melbourne CBD. The Greater City of Dandenong is one of 34 cities within Victoria and a particularly unique place for a number of reasons. It has a significant industrial economy, comprised of 12,542 businesses responsible for $75,000 of Gross Regional Products (GRP) according to the statistics posted by the ‘City of Greater Dandenong’ website. Notably, 31% higher than the states GSP (Gross States Product) per capita of $57,000. These products were mainly, but not limited to, manufacturing automotive parts, trucks and caravans and metal fabrication. Greater Dandenong is also well-known for their community’s ethnic diversity. According to the 2016 Census ‘General Community profile’, out of the 152,050 residence that reside in Greater Dandenong, 87,768 were born overseas (GreaterDandenong, 2019). That is more than half of the cities population that have migrated from other countries, the majority being from India, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Most likely due to the house price flattening in the 1990’s, migrants were able to afford to move to Australia. Greater Dandenong was especially attractive to prospective residents because of their employment opportunities within the manufacturing industry, proximity to a large hospital, established railway system, private and public schooling and home to a major shopping complex, Dandenong Plaza.
Population Pyramids
Below are three population pyramids comprised from Greater Dandenong’s population by their age range, divided by gender. They cover the years of 2001, 2011 and 2016.
From immediate impressions, the distribution of each of the graphs are fairly similar, especially between 2011 and 2016, as they seem to peak and trough in the same manner. Contrary to the 2001 graph, 2011 and 2016 appears to have more people under the age of 35, whereas 2001, has a more even distribution between the young adults to middle aged range. This may largely be due to the affordability of houses in the area, as the average age of Australians first home buyers are is around 25-35 years old, Greater Dandenong provides affordable homes in an upcoming area (Greiner, 2015).
In addition, the population growth is evidently growing exponentially. Between the years 2001 to 2011 there was a population growth rate of approximately 1500 people per year, across 10 years. Later increasing to approximately 2400 persons per year between the years of 2011 and 2016 within a 5-year gap. This can merely be chalked up to the soaring population of Australia as a whole (Greiner, 2015). Since Greater Dandenong is a local government area close to the CBD, people tend to favour places closure to cities, as there are more opportunities for jobs beyond the manufacturing industry, such as a business for example and also educational opportunities.
Profile
The city of Greater Dandenong is a fast developing economy representing a very diverse population making it vibrant and creative. The residents of the city comprise of people coming from 160 different places. Their birth places are different. About 64% of the population in Greater Dandenong were not born in the city. About 52% of the population comes from those countries where English is not their first language that they speak. Further the average Melbourne citizens account for 26%. These birth nations of the citizens include Cambodia, India, Britain, Vietnam, Italy, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, China and New Zealand. Those residents who were born overseas observed an increase of about 14,000 people in 2011 to 2016 which included about 2300 Afghans, 1400 Cambodians, 2400 Indians and 1500 Vietnamese (Remplan community, 2019). This city’s diversity can also be seen through the various religious faiths that people have. This includes Islam which represents 13%, Christianity representing 37%, Buddhism representing 15% and Hinduism at 5%. Majority of the citizens of Greater city of Dandenong i.e. 70% speak different languages apart from English. The major part of these citizens speaks Khmer, Punjabi, Vietnamese, Sinhalese, Greek and Chinese. From the below diagram we can say that 8.73% of citizens were born in Vietnam, 8.13 represent Indian population, 4.51% from Cambodia, 4.19% from Sri Lanka, 3.16% from Afghanistan, 3.03% from China, and rest from New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Greece, Italy, England and some non stated (Greiner & Strahler, 2011). The birthplace of the citizens can be seen from the below diagram:
Diagram representing birthplace of citizens of Greater Dandenong
Diagram representing spoken...