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Home>Discover Kingston>Our City>Our People
| Kingston has a diverse population of around 135,000 people, that's growing by about 1,000 per year.
More than 26,000 residents are aged over 60 - significantly more than the Melbourne average. Our ageing population is more evident in the older western and northern suburbs. Newer suburbs such as Aspendale Gardens and Chelsea Heights have high proportions of pre-school children.
Overall Kingston has a high proportion of people born in Australia (higher than the Melbourne average) however in the northern suburbs of Clayton South, Clarinda and Oakleigh, there are large Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian communities.
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| Did You Know? |
 | 66% of Kingston residents were born in Australia | | 63.6% of migrants arrived in Kingston pre-1986 | | 23% of people speak a language other than English at home (most commonly Greek, Italian, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Mandarin or Arabic).
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| Online Demographic Maps | | Learn more about Kingston's demographics and forecast population changes using online demographic maps populated with census data.
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