Know Your Parish - 2001 Excerpts from the Holy Family Census Report 2001)

We have a total of 7026 parishioners in our parish. Our parish has a total of 1786 households. Out of the 1786 households in the parish, 1266 have phones that are 71% of our households. The Main Language spoken in the homes of our parish are as follows:   Konkanni 53%   English 36%   Marathi/East Indian 05%   Malayalam 2.5%   Tamil 02%   Hindi 01%   Gujrathi 0.6%   And in two homes German is spoken The ‘Jesus Fan club’ please note we have 1232 parishioners of the age group between 0 – 15 years under your care And ‘Parish Youth Council’ you have 1889 youth between the age group 16 – 30 years to cater to. The following statistics show that our parishioners have no biases towards any sex:   Female parishioners 3511   Male parishioners 3515 The break up of type of housing of our 1786 households is as follows:   Huts 3   Bungalows 83   Flats 624   Chawls 1076 From our 1786 house holds, 1399 say that they pray daily. The rest pray occasionally or rarely. If you call out ‘Mary’ in our parish 83 parishioners will answer. The other common female names are as follows.   1st Mary 83   2nd Maria 60   3rd Philomena 57   4th Rosy 41   5th Leena 38   6th Rita 36   7th Anita 30 The most common Male names of our parish are as follows:   1st Anthony 89   2nd Francis 89   3rd Joseph 85   4th John 72   5th Peter 68   6th Lawrence 38   7th Vincent 32 The most common surnames of our parish are as follows:   1st D'Souza 1043 parishioners   2nd Fernandes 1024   3rd Pereira 215   4th Rodrigues 210   5th Dias 179   6th Lobo 176   7th Pinto 172 The most common birth dates of our parish are as follows:   The Most common birth date of our parishioners 1st & 8th of the Month   The Least common birth date of our parishioners 29th and 31st of the month Most birthdays in our parish are celebrated during the months of September and October and the least in February. The place of origin of our parishioners is as follows:   Karnataka 35%   Goa 28%   Maharashtra 26%   Kerala 04%   Tamil Nadu 02   Gujarat 0.7   Two of our parishioners are from Germany. Concerning the place of origin, no data was available from 3% .