Gwydir, New South Wales

Which languages are spoken in Gwydir?

Urdu is the most common language after English in Gwydir, though only 20 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. Only 23 councils have a lower share.

Residents
4,148
Speak another language
20
Languages at home
8
Change since 2016
−33.3%

What languages besides English do people speak in Gwydir?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Urdu, German and Cantonese.

Urdu

6 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

German

4 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Cantonese

3 speakers

The community has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

Where does Gwydir sit against Australia as a whole?

The national share is more than twice as high as Gwydir's. Among New South Wales councils, Gwydir ranks 127th.

Gwydir
0.5%
Australia
21.3%
City of Sydney
33.9%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Every council ranked, Gwydir included.

Where in Gwydir are other languages most common?

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

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.

0.5% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 343 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 8.8%; among respondents alone it's 0.5%.

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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