Shepparton, Greater Shepparton

What Shepparton speaks at home

Arabic is the most common language after English in Shepparton, where about 7,100 people speak another language at home, the 2021 Census shows. Behind it sits Hazaraghi. The share speaking another language is 1.3 times the figure for Greater Shepparton.

Residents
31,639
Speak another language
22.4%+16.4%
Languages spoken
71
Born overseas
20.6%

What languages are spoken in Shepparton?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Arabic
    1,033-6.0%
  2. 02
    Hazaraghi
    710+40.9%
  3. 03
    Punjabi
    707+17.4%
  4. 04
    Italian
    476-23.3%
  5. 05
    Mandarin
    381+53.0%
  6. 06
    Albanian
    341+3.0%
  7. 07
    Malayalam
    307+58.2%
  8. 08
    Swahili
    256+112%
  9. 09
    Malay
    249+1283%
  10. 10
    Turkish
    246-8.2%

Which countries are Shepparton's residents from?

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

  1. 01
    India
    1,102+28.6%
  2. 02
    Afghanistan
    668-5.5%
  3. 03
    Malaysia
    506+456%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    436+105%
  5. 05
    Italy
    366-12.2%
  6. 06
    Iraq
    354-13.9%
  7. 07
    England
    350-7.2%
  8. 08
    New Zealand
    325-0.9%
  9. 09
    Albania
    202-1.0%
  10. 10
    Pakistan
    193+2.1%

Where does Shepparton sit against Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is close to the figure for Australia as a whole.

Shepparton
22.4%
Greater Shepparton
16.8%
Australia
21.3%

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

What religions are reported in Shepparton?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    13,817-9.6%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    10,504+29.6%
  3. 03
    Islam
    3,125+8.6%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    564+51.2%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    421+79.1%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    7+133%

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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