Melonba, Blacktown

What Melonba speaks at home

Melonba, in Blacktown, is a suburb of many languages: about 950 people spoke something other than English at home at the 2021 Census. Australia as a whole has a lower share than Melonba. The census lists 30 languages spoken at home here.

Residents
1,427
Speak another language
66.9%
Languages spoken
30
Born overseas
58.8%

What are Melonba's most spoken languages?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Punjabi
    200
  2. 02
    Tagalog
    120
  3. 03
    Gujarati
    100
  4. 04
    Hindi
    76
  5. 05
    Filipino
    72
  6. 06
    Tamil
    50
  7. 07
    Urdu
    50
  8. 08
    Malayalam
    34
  9. 09
    Telugu
    31
  10. 10
    Nepali
    30

Why doesn't one language lead in Melonba?

Punjabi leads with 200 people. In all, 15 languages each reach at least one resident in 100.

Which countries are Melonba's residents from?

Overseas-born residents make up nearly three in five residents, most often from India.

  1. 01
    India
    446+44500%
  2. 02
    Philippines
    180+17900%
  3. 03
    Pakistan
    33
  4. 04
    Nepal
    24
  5. 05
    Fiji
    17
  6. 06
    Bangladesh
    16
  7. 07
    Sri Lanka
    16
  8. 08
    Iran
    13
  9. 09
    Indonesia
    11
  10. 10
    Singapore
    10

How does Melonba compare with Blacktown?

The share speaking another language is 1.5 times the figure for Blacktown.

Melonba
66.9%
Australia
21.3%
Blacktown
45.5%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

What religions are reported in Melonba?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    510+5567%
  2. 02
    Hinduism
    390+38900%
  3. 03
    No religion or secular beliefs
    153+5000%
  4. 04
    Islam
    104
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    33

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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