Coindence re covid hot spots? I think not.According to the 2016 census, the Muslim population numbered 604,235 individuals, of whom 42% live in Greater Sydney, 31% in Greater Melbourne, and 8% in Greater Perth. The states and territories with the highest proportion of Muslims are New South Wales (3.58%) and Victoria (3.32%), whereas those with the lowest are Queensland (0.95%) and Tasmania (0.49%).[113]
4.2% of people in Greater Melbourne are Muslim.[114] Many Muslims living there are Bosnian and Turkish. Melbourne's Australian Muslims live primarily in the northern suburbs surrounding Broadmeadows, (mostly Turkish), Coburg, Brunswick and Epping (mostly Lebanese) and a few in the outer southern suburbs such as Noble Park and Dandenong (mostly Bosnian).
Very few Muslims live in rural areas with theexceptions of the sizeable Turkish and Albanian community in Shepparton, which has Victoria's oldest mosque,
