Malayalam
17 speakers
It has more than tripled since 2016.
Hay, New South Wales
Languages spoken in Hay
Malayalam is the most common language after English in Hay, though only 99 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double. The number speaking another language at home grew by more than a quarter in five years.
- Residents
- 2,872
- Speak another language
- 99
- Languages at home
- 19
- Change since 2016
- +25.3%
What's spoken in Hay apart from English?
The largest communities are small, but they're here: Malayalam, Punjabi and Afrikaans.
How far is Hay from the City of Sydney on languages?
The share for the City of Sydney is more than twice as high as Hay's. Hay is 67th of 128 across New South Wales.
- Hay
- 3.4%
- City of Sydney
- 33.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Which suburbs of Hay have the most speakers of other languages?
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
- Hay SouthLed by Punjabi4%19
- Hay (NSW)Led by Malayalam4%80
- Booligal0%0
- 3 suburbs in Hay. 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.
Other sources sometimes quote 15.5% for Hay. That figure treats the 345 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 3.4%, and 3.9% is the share among those who answered.
Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.
Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.
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