Nepali
47 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
Glenelg, Victoria
Which languages are spoken in Glenelg?
Only about 420 people in Glenelg speak a language other than English at home, the 2021 Census shows. Nepali is the one heard most. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double.
- Residents
- 19,984
- Speak another language
- 418
- Languages at home
- 49
- Change since 2016
- +54.8%
Which languages are heard at home in Glenelg?
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
How does Glenelg compare with the City of Melbourne?
The share for the City of Melbourne is more than twice as high as Glenelg's. In the Victoria table, Glenelg is 73rd of 79.
- Glenelg
- 2.1%
- City of Melbourne
- 45.0%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
Do Glenelg's suburbs differ much?
The share barely changes across 21 suburbs; Portland North is highest.
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
- TyrendarraLed by Filipino5%12
- Portland NorthLed by Auslan3%26
- Portland (Vic.)Led by Nepali3%265
- CastertonLed by Nepali2%40
- Cape BridgewaterLed by Japanese2%6
- Corndale (Vic.)Led by Afrikaans2%6
- GoraeLed by Filipino2%8
- Portland WestLed by French1%9
- HeathmereLed by Maltese1%3
- HeywoodLed by Maltese1%20
- AllestreeLed by Thai1%4
- Mount RichmondLed by Maltese1%3
- MerinoLed by Arabic1%3
- NarrawongLed by Sinhalese1%4
- MilltownLed by Tagalog1%3
- Dartmoor (Vic.)Led by Filipino1%3
- Bolwarra (Vic.)Led by Greek1%3
- Nelson (Vic.)0%0
- Strathdownie0%0
- Sandford (Vic.)0%0
- Tahara0%0
- 21 suburbs in Glenelg. The percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
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.
The headline 2.1% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 1,378 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 9.0%, while measuring only those who answered gives 2.2%.
National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.
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