Hallam is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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,
Australia
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, 34 km south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Casey
The City of Casey is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Casey is Victoria's most populous municipality, with a June 2018 population of 340,419. It has an area of .
The city is named ...
local government area
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. Hallam recorded a population of 11,355 at the
2021 census.
[
The suburb has its own ]railway station
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.
Hallam is bounded by the South Gippsland Freeway
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Route
South Gi ...
in the west, Eumemmerring Creek and Hallam North Road in the north, a drain easement in the east, and Centre Road in the south.
History
The post office opened on 1 May 1889. It closed in 1981, but reopened in 1994.
Demographics
According to 2016 Census the most common ancestries in Hallam were English 13.4%, Australian 11.9%, Afghan 8.3%, Indian 5.7% and Sri Lankan 3.9%.Afghanistan
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8.1%, India
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5.5%, Sri Lanka
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4.7%, New Zealand
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2.5% and England
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1.9%.[ The most common responses for religion in Hallam were Catholic 21.5%, Islam 20.0%, No Religion, so described 15.4%, Not stated 8.1% and Buddhism 5.5%.][ Two in every five people (40.8%) spoke only English at home.][ Other languages spoken at home included Dari 7.0%, Arabic 3.8%, Sinhalese 3.0%, Hazaraghi 2.8% and Punjabi 2.3%.][
Of the 4,953 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Hallam, 56.9% were employed full time, 28.9% were employed part-time and 9.3% were unemployed.][
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See also
* City of Berwick
The City of Berwick was a local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1973 until 1994.
History
The area which came under the City of Berwick had ...
– Hallam was previously within this former local government area.
References
{{City of Casey suburbs
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Casey