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Our communities reflect the diversity and strengths of Victoria. This diversity is essential to the social and economic strength of our state.
LGBTIQ+
- Approximately 5.7% of Victorian adults identify as LGBTIQ+.1
Young people
- There are around 775,000 young people aged 15 to 24 in Victoria, representing almost 12% of the community.2
- Almost 12,000 young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live in Victoria.3
CALD communities
- More than half of all Victorians were born overseas or had a parent born overseas.4
- Five in 10 Victorians follow one of more than 130 different faiths.5
Women
- Women make up more than half of the Victorian population, at 50.8%.6
- Women faced more job losses, more unpaid work and received less support during the COVID-19 pandemic.7
- Older women make up the fastest growing group of homeless Australians.8
Veterans
- About 500 new veterans move to Victoria each year.9
- There are over 100,000 previous or current serving and reserve members of the Australian Defence Force living in Victoria10.
Senior Victorians
- About one-quarter of Victorians will be aged over 60 by 2056.11
- Over a million Victorians are aged over 65.12
Carers
- Victoria has more than 730,000 carers.13
- Women account for almost 70% of primary carers.14
People with disability
- One in six Victorians (17% of the population) live with disability.15
- Over 5% of Victorians experience severe or profound disability.16
People experiencing homelessness and housing stress
- One in 57 Victorians access a state-funded homelessness service in 2018-19.17
- Over 75% of these people could not be provided with long-term housing.18
- More than 60,000 Victorians have applied to the social housing register. Of those applications, over 55% have an urgent housing need and are on the priority access list.19