Editing Fawkner (section)

==Population==

According to Merri-bek Council's suburb profile, Fawkner has a larger percentage of population aged over 70 years (17.7%) and aged from 5 to 11 years (8.9%), than the average for the municipality (11.8% and 7.0% respectively).<ref name="MCsuburbprofile">Moreland Council, [http://moreland.vic.gov.au/about-moreland/demographics-statistics/suburb-profiles/fawkner.html Fawkner Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20131108082146/http://moreland.vic.gov.au/about-moreland/demographics-statistics/suburb-profiles/fawkner.html |date=8 November 2013 }}, retrieved 8 November 2013</ref>

The suburb also has a lower proportion – In Fawkner, 45.2% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were Italy 9.7%, Pakistan 8.9%, as against the municipal average of 59.3%.<ref name="MCsuburbprofile" />

The most common responses for religion in Fawkner were Catholic 33.5%, Islam 31.9%, No Religion, so described 10.1%, Not stated 8.0% and Eastern Orthodox 6.0%. In Fawkner, Christianity was the largest religious group reported overall (49.1%) (this figure excludes not stated responses).

In Fawkner, 31.1% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 13.8%, Urdu 12.4%, Arabic 9.2%, Greek 4.1% and Bengali 2.9%.