Punjabi
3,469 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 3,469 of our residents at home, 3.0% of Cardinia.
We are Cardinia
17 per cent.
About 17 in every 100 Cardinia residents speak a language other than English at home, across 129 languages.
- Our population
- 117,329
- Speak another language
- 19,624
- Languages at home
- 129
- Growth since last census
- +107.2%
20k of us — 16.7% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Punjabi, Sinhalese and Hindi. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Victoria
#27
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #121 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Sinhalese
2,072 speakers
Sinhalese is spoken by 2,072 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Cardinia.
Hindi
962 speakers
Hindi is spoken by 962 of our residents at home, 0.8% of Cardinia.
The languages of Cardinia
129 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.
Fastest-growing among us
Punjabi
+343.6% 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. 20k 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.
Punjabi grew 343.6% since the last census, to 3,469 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 131 countries.
- 01India5,125+208%
- 02England4,292+1.9%
- 03Sri Lanka2,233+154%
- 04New Zealand1,895+15.9%
- 05Philippines1,085+90.7%
- 06Pakistan693+593%
- 07China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)612+167%
- 08Scotland585+10.6%
- 09South Africa580+37.1%
- 10Netherlands503-3.6%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Cardinia at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs52,559+50.9%
- 02Christianity45,572-3.0%
- 03Hinduism3,258+190%
- 04Islam3,075+224%
- 05Buddhism2,759+96.8%
- 06Judaism47-2.1%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 34 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- OfficerTop language — Sinhalese31%5,508
- Officer SouthTop language — Punjabi26%279
- PakenhamTop language — Punjabi22%11,788
- Beaconsfield (Vic.)Top language — Sinhalese12%850
- Cora LynnTop language — Italian9%20
- Pakenham SouthTop language — Tamil9%23
- Guys HillTop language — Mandarin7%26
- DalmoreTop language — Italian7%11
- CataniTop language — Wiradjuri5%16
- Pakenham UpperTop language — Italian5%57
- DewhurstTop language — Swiss, so described5%7
- Nar Nar GoonTop language — Punjabi5%48
- IonaTop language — Portuguese5%16
- Emerald (Vic.)Top language — Spanish4%261
- Koo Wee RupTop language — Italian4%161
- Beaconsfield UpperTop language — Italian4%114
- CardiniaTop language — Greek3%15
- ClematisTop language — Greek3%11
- BaylesTop language — Nepali3%14
- GembrookTop language — Italian3%82
- YannathanTop language — Tagalog3%8
- Cockatoo (Vic.)Top language — German3%131
- TynongTop language — German3%19
- GarfieldTop language — Croatian2%47
- Lang LangTop language — Arabic2%42
- BunyipTop language — Italian1%44
- Heath HillTop language — Italian1%3
- MaryknollTop language — Spanish1%6
- TonimbukTop language — Polish1%3
- Tynong NorthTop language — German1%4
- Nar Nar Goon NorthTop language — Tagalog1%7
- AvonsleighTop language — Romanian0%3
- Caldermeade0%0
- Garfield North0%0
- 34 suburbs in Cardinia. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Cardinia 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
- Cardinia
- 16.7%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
16.7% of Cardinia 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. 16.7% is 19,624 residents as a share of all 117,329 of us. A further 6,024 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 21.9%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 17.6%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Cardinia, 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 Cardinia 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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