Mandarin
4,413 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 4,413 of our residents at home, 3.7% of Banyule.
We are Banyule
20 per cent.
About 20 in every 100 Banyule residents speak a language other than English at home, across 113 languages.
- Our population
- 120,301
- Speak another language
- 23,994
- Languages at home
- 113
- Growth since last census
- +6.0%
24k of us — 19.9% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Mandarin, Italian and Greek. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Victoria
#22
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #101 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Italian
2,876 speakers
Italian is spoken by 2,876 of our residents at home, 2.4% of Banyule.
Greek
2,181 speakers
Greek is spoken by 2,181 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Banyule.
The languages of Banyule
113 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
- 014,413+26.5%
- 022,876-17.3%
- 032,181-7.5%
- 041,330+17.4%
- 051,049-3.5%
- 06834+65.5%
- 07831-17.1%
- 08779+29.8%
- 09745+13.1%
- 10689-3.6%
Fastest-growing among us
Persian (excluding Dari)
+65.5% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the Victoria average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 24k of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Persian (excluding Dari) grew 65.5% since the last census, to 834 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
21.5% of us were born overseas, across 128 countries.
- 01China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)3,316+18.1%
- 02England3,294+2.3%
- 03India2,247+21.3%
- 04Italy1,944-5.1%
- 05New Zealand1,401+6.1%
- 06Malaysia1,120+15.0%
- 07Greece906+4.4%
- 08Sri Lanka807+26.3%
- 09Iran750+46.5%
- 10Vietnam591+4.8%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Banyule at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity54,116-9.0%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs53,722+29.0%
- 03Islam2,880+10.6%
- 04Hinduism2,165+38.3%
- 05Buddhism2,114+14.1%
- 06Judaism127+67.1%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 18 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Bellfield (Banyule - Vic.)Top language — Arabic34%675
- Heidelberg WestTop language — Somali34%1,733
- ViewbankTop language — Mandarin31%2,183
- Heidelberg HeightsTop language — Mandarin27%1,809
- HeidelbergTop language — Italian23%1,697
- Ivanhoe (Vic.)Top language — Mandarin22%2,936
- RosannaTop language — Italian22%1,890
- Macleod (Vic.)Top language — Mandarin21%2,076
- Watsonia NorthTop language — Italian20%740
- EaglemontTop language — Italian19%732
- Ivanhoe EastTop language — Mandarin18%682
- WatsoniaTop language — Mandarin18%947
- YallambieTop language — Mandarin17%691
- GreensboroughTop language — Mandarin16%3,271
- St HelenaTop language — Italian12%356
- Lower PlentyTop language — Mandarin12%477
- Briar HillTop language — Mandarin10%311
- MontmorencyTop language — Mandarin9%788
- 18 suburbs in Banyule. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Banyule shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Banyule
- 19.9%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
19.9% of Banyule residents speak a language other than English at home, against 26.6% for Victoria and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted. 19.9% is 23,994 residents as a share of all 120,301 of us. A further 3,782 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 23.1%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 20.6%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Banyule, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Banyule figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
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