Melbourne has been heavily influenced by immigrants since it was founded in 1835, and trends in recent years will bring far-reaching changes to the future.
About one-third of the Melbourne people are immigrants and 45 per cent of the Melbourne-based parents are born overseas.
As many as 2/3 of Melbourne's 90,000 people a year are immigrants, while new arrivals continue to flow.
More than half of current immigrants come from Asia, mainly from India and China.
This trend is rapidly changing Melbourne's demographic composition and continues to gain momentum.
The 2013 AMES survey asked immigrants why they came to Australia, and about 1/3 said they had a better lifestyle, 26 percent said their children's education and 20 percent said they were safe.
According to the 2011 census, Clayton has the highest proportion of immigrants in Melbourne, with 70 percent of residents born overseas.
This was followed by Springvale (68.8%), CBD (68.1%), Dandenong (67%), Clayton South (64.6%), Carlton (62.9) and St Albans (62%.
Immigrants from China have changed the demographic composition of areas like Box Hill, where 22 percent of residents were born in China in 2011, a proportion that is expected to rise sharply after the 2016 census data were released.
The Indians like Laverton, Glen Huntly and Clayton South, while the areas where the Vietnamese live are Sunshine North, Braybrook and Springvale..