Where the Maltese community lives in Melbourne

Hillside has the largest Maltese community: 11.1% of residents reported Maltese ancestry. Taylors Hill and Taylors Lakes follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 226 eligible Melbourne suburbs. In Melbourne suburbs of 2,000+ residents, 1.5% of people reported Maltese ancestry (2021 Census).

Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who reported Maltese ancestry. Ancestry is the broadest measure — it includes Australian-born second and third generations, not just migrants. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are included, and percentile ranks are computed within Melbourne's pool, so the list reflects concentration relative to other metro suburbs.

Ancestry is the only published Maltese signal — the census lists neither Malta as a birthplace nor Maltese as a language — so the migrant and language angles shown on other community pages do not exist for this one. Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side, but the ABS publishes a fixed list of ancestries, birthplaces and languages, and they do not cover every community equally. We show the figures that exist rather than filling the gaps with a zero, which would read as an absence of people instead of an absence of a question.

The figures are from the 2021 Census, the most recent available until results from the August 2026 Census are released in 2027. The top 15 is recomputed whenever we refresh the census data.