Surgeons in Kew, childcare staff in Tarneit: Suburbs and their career clusters

Teena Beri says she found more than just work when she moved to Tarneit from India: her job has given her a sense of family.

Childcare workers Glynis Cruz with Teena Beri at the Child’s Play centre in Tarneit Credit: Luis Enrique Ascui

The educator at Child's Play in the booming western suburb says there’s a special sense of community within both her profession and her neighbourhood, which is home to the most childcare workers in the country (647 of the 139,595 nationwide).

"My co-workers are all in this area and the parents, so when you go to the shopping centre you meet them, you meet the children all the time," she said.

"I think it's great for us because we are from overseas and we don't have anyone here so this is our family and having people around us makes us happy."

Tarneit's growing population has seen the number of children aged under 10 grow to 7729 in 2016, which was more than the suburb's entire population in 2006.

Having moved from India in 2008, Ms Beri says the area is welcoming for newcomers and ideal for families.

"Tarneit is growing so fast and it's good. It's easy to get along with people and with a similar age group in every second or third house it's easy for the children as well to settle down," she says.

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Demographic data from the ABS shows that childcare workers make up 4.1 per cent of Tarneit's working population.

That might not sound like a lot, but most professions make up 1 per cent or less of a suburb’s population, and across Australia childcare workers make up 1.3 per cent of the working population.

When it comes to job clusters in Melbourne, the CBD is home to the most architects, while gaming workers live in Southbank, surgeons in Kew and funeral workers in Frankston.

The artsy suburb of Brunswick is home to the most actors, graphic designers and musicians of anywhere in Australia, and also (perhaps more unexpectedly) economists.

Glynis Cruz, who also works at Child's Play, is new to the childcare industry having qualified for her diploma in September last year. Also from India, she feels lucky to have settled in Tarneit and found such fulfilling work.

"I couldn't have asked for anything better," she said. "There are lots of jobs."

"I love it and am very passionate but I would say you have to really love the job to be able to work in it."

Both women mention jobs, housing and community as reasons that brought them to Tarneit. They also have enviable commutes, their drives between home and work take 10 minutes or less.

After starting work in the sector in 2010, Ms Beri has seen enormous change in demand for childcare across the western suburbs, with many new centres springing up, especially in Tarneit. According to childcare centre finder CareForKids, there are 159 child care providers in the area.