Punjabi
16,852 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 16,852 of our residents at home, 4.7% of Casey.
We are Casey
41 per cent.
Nearly 41 in every 100 Casey residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Victoria.
- Our population
- 360,635
- Speak another language
- 148,140
- Languages at home
- 165
- Growth since last census
- +43.9%
Punjabi, Sinhalese and Hazaraghi are spoken here in numbers that shape how the place works. 148k of us — 41.1% — speak a language other than English at home, so an English-only notice reaches barely half the households it was addressed to.
In Victoria
#9
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #45 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Sinhalese
12,917 speakers
Sinhalese is spoken by 12,917 of our residents at home, 3.6% of Casey.
Hazaraghi
11,760 speakers
Hazaraghi is spoken by 11,760 of our residents at home, 3.3% of Casey.
The languages of Casey
165 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
Hazaraghi
+200.8% since last census
We share this portrait because Casey is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 1.5 times the Victoria figure. Services designed for the median Victoria resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Hazaraghi grew 200.8% since the last census, to 11,760 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
40.5% of us were born overseas, across 154 countries.
- 01India32,323+80.4%
- 02Sri Lanka15,017+33.8%
- 03Afghanistan14,673+71.8%
- 04New Zealand8,013+11.9%
- 05England7,957-7.1%
- 06Philippines7,014+54.9%
- 07China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)5,751+37.3%
- 08Pakistan4,243+83.5%
- 09Mauritius3,159+3.4%
- 10Cambodia2,155+34.4%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Casey at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity142,127-2.3%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs104,547+41.9%
- 03Islam38,407+73.2%
- 04Hinduism22,756+82.7%
- 05Buddhism18,306+34.5%
- 06Judaism208+33.3%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 28 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Lyndhurst (Vic.)Top language — Punjabi58%5,140
- DovetonTop language — Hazaraghi58%5,467
- HallamTop language — Hazaraghi56%6,286
- LynbrookTop language — Punjabi56%4,986
- EumemmerringTop language — Hazaraghi55%1,260
- Clyde NorthTop language — Punjabi53%16,605
- Hampton ParkTop language — Hazaraghi53%13,673
- Endeavour HillsTop language — Mandarin50%12,087
- Cranbourne EastTop language — Punjabi47%11,606
- Cranbourne NorthTop language — Punjabi45%10,915
- Clyde (Vic.)Top language — Punjabi45%4,931
- Cranbourne WestTop language — Punjabi43%8,450
- Narre Warren SouthTop language — Hazaraghi40%12,329
- Narre WarrenTop language — Mandarin37%10,062
- CranbourneTop language — Punjabi29%6,198
- Narre Warren NorthTop language — Mandarin29%2,335
- BerwickTop language — Mandarin28%13,834
- Lysterfield SouthTop language — Mandarin22%217
- Cranbourne SouthTop language — Punjabi20%633
- Devon MeadowsTop language — Greek11%148
- Botanic RidgeTop language — Malayalam9%624
- Junction VillageTop language — Greek7%64
- HarkawayTop language — Tamil7%60
- Blind BightTop language — Mandarin4%57
- PearcedaleTop language — Serbian3%133
- Cannons CreekTop language — Italian2%13
- TooradinTop language — French1%23
- WarneetTop language — Mandarin1%4
- 28 suburbs in Casey. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Casey 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
- Casey
- 41.1%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
41.1% of Casey 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. 41.1% is 148,140 residents as a share of all 360,635 of us. A further 18,856 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 46.3%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 43.3%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Casey, 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 Casey 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.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Casey.