Census confirms Casey’s growth

CASEY has been declared a boom growth area over the past few years and that has only been confirmed by the latest Australian Census results.
Census figures reveal that Casey has a higher than average population in the age brackets from 0 to four, five to 14, 15-24 and 25-54.
More than four out of five Casey residents have Australian citizenship while more than 30 per cent of people in the area were born overseas.
England, Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand were the top countries of birth for Casey residents who were not born in Australia.
Slightly more than one in every five locals is not affiliated with a religion while 3.5 per cent follow Islam.
The average weekly income for Casey residents over the age of 15 is $480 – $24 more than the national average.
And Casey has been highlighted as a happy hunting ground for couples with children.
More than half of the couples living in the municipality have children, compared with the national average of 45.3 per cent
Other facts to emerge from the census were almost one in five Australians over 15 years of age had done voluntary work in the year before the 2006 Census.
Slightly more than 20 per cent of the total population were born overseas.
And almost 400 languages are spoken in houses across Australia with close to 79 per cent of the population speaking only English at home.