Investigative Exercise 9: Community Profiles

Kogarah LGA Community Profile

Kogarah has an estimated population of 61030 and an estimated population density of 39.32 persons per hectare. From the 2011 census the population can be divided by age group thusly:

Age group                 Population
0-4                             3370
5-9                             3096                                                                                                      
10-14                         3370
15-19                         3453
20-29                         8387
30-39                         8061
40-49                         8247
50-59                         7032
60+                            10789

The population consisted of 27,246 males and 28,559 females.

The five largest ethnic groups were:

• Chinese (12,478 people or 22.4%)
• Australian (9,632 people or 17.3%)
• English (9,413 people or 16.9%)
• Greek (5,834 people or 10.5%)
• Irish (3,430 people or 6.1%)

50% of people spoke a language other than English. The five main languages spoken were:

Mandarin	5,850	10.5	3.0	4,203	8.0	2.3	+1,647
Cantonese	4,852	8.7	3.0	4,174	7.9	3.0	+678
Greek	4,540	8.1	1.8	4,275	8.1	1.9	+265
Arabic	2,015	3.6	4.1	2,016	3.8	3.9	-1
Macedonian	1,296	2.3	0.4	1,164	2.2	0.5	+132

The five main religions were: 

Religion	Number	%	Greater Sydney %	Number	%	Greater Sydney %	2006 to 2011
Western (Roman) Catholic	13,586	24.3	27.5	13,558	25.8	28.3	+28
Anglican	6,684	12.0	16.1	7,375	14.0	17.9	-691
Greek Orthodox	6,171	11.1	2.7	5,736	10.9	2.9	+435
Buddhism	2,569	4.6	4.1	1,906	3.6	3.7	+663
Islam	2,090	3.7	4.7	1,713	3.3	3.9	+377

11159 people were non-religious.