Punjabi
1,510 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 1,510 of our residents at home, 2.3% of Greater Shepparton.
We are Greater Shepparton
17 per cent.
About 17 in every 100 Greater Shepparton residents speak a language other than English at home, across 92 languages.
- Our population
- 67,108
- Speak another language
- 11,283
- Languages at home
- 92
- Growth since last census
- +28.3%
11k of us — 16.8% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Punjabi, Arabic and Italian. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Victoria
#26
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #120 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Arabic
1,405 speakers
Arabic is spoken by 1,405 of our residents at home, 2.1% of Greater Shepparton.
Italian
1,026 speakers
Italian is spoken by 1,026 of our residents at home, 1.5% of Greater Shepparton.
The languages of Greater Shepparton
92 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
Malayalam
+93.8% 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. 11k 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.
Malayalam grew 93.8% since the last census, to 471 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
15.9% of us were born overseas, across 97 countries.
- 01India1,993+71.7%
- 02England826+1.7%
- 03Afghanistan767+1.7%
- 04Italy738-9.9%
- 05New Zealand708+3.2%
- 06Malaysia640+327%
- 07Philippines634+88.1%
- 08Iraq505+10.0%
- 09Albania272+11.5%
- 10Pakistan261+17.6%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Greater Shepparton at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity30,637-8.3%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs23,664+36.2%
- 03Islam4,321+23.9%
- 04Hinduism940+92.2%
- 05Buddhism671+56.4%
- 06Judaism12+100%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 27 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Shepparton NorthTop language — Malayalam33%679
- LemnosTop language — Italian28%70
- Shepparton EastTop language — Punjabi22%268
- SheppartonTop language — Arabic22%7,098
- OrrvaleTop language — Punjabi20%86
- KiallaTop language — Punjabi19%1,665
- ArdmonaTop language — Punjabi15%74
- GrahamvaleTop language — Albanian11%71
- UnderaTop language — Italian9%50
- MerrigumTop language — Punjabi9%59
- TaturaTop language — Italian9%425
- Tatura EastTop language — Turkish8%23
- MooroopnaTop language — Punjabi7%544
- Mooroopna NorthTop language — Italian5%13
- DookieTop language — Hindi4%23
- CongupnaTop language — Punjabi4%24
- Pine Lodge (Vic.)Top language — Punjabi4%10
- TallygaroopnaTop language — Dutch4%22
- HarstonTop language — Greek3%11
- DhurringileTop language — Thai3%12
- BunbarthaTop language — Punjabi3%12
- Murchison (Vic.)Top language — Malay2%26
- ByrnesideTop language — Italian2%5
- Kialla WestTop language — Albanian1%6
- ToolambaTop language — Auslan0%4
- Katandra WestTop language — Italian0%3
- Arcadia (Vic.)0%0
- 27 suburbs in Greater Shepparton. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Greater Shepparton 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
- Greater Shepparton
- 16.8%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
16.8% of Greater Shepparton 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. 16.8% is 11,283 residents as a share of all 67,108 of us. A further 5,193 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 24.6%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 18.2%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Greater Shepparton, 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 Greater Shepparton 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 Greater Shepparton.