Mickleham, Hume

The languages of Mickleham

The 2021 Census found Punjabi spoken at home by about 3,000 people in Mickleham, well ahead of any other language. Mickleham's share is above Hume, at 1.2 times the rate. For the wider picture, Hume has a page of its own.

Residents
17,517
Speak another language
56.2%+744%
Languages spoken
80
Born overseas
43.5%

How large is Mickleham's Punjabi-speaking community?

Punjabi at home

17%

The next language, Arabic, is a long way behind.

What's spoken in Mickleham besides Punjabi?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Punjabi
    3,015+1808%
  2. 02
    Arabic
    995+993%
  3. 03
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    615+1155%
  4. 04
    Hindi
    605+676%
  5. 05
    Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
    576+1029%
  6. 06
    Urdu
    567+9350%
  7. 07
    Turkish
    527+455%
  8. 08
    Samoan
    312+593%
  9. 09
    Sinhalese
    299+346%
  10. 10
    Italian
    220+61.8%

Is Mickleham more multilingual than Victoria?

The share speaking another language is more than twice the figure for Victoria.

Mickleham
56.2%
Hume
48.2%
Victoria
26.6%

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

Where were Mickleham's residents born?

India is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    India
    2,900+1113%
  2. 02
    Iraq
    1,205+1597%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    485+613%
  4. 04
    Pakistan
    404+2786%
  5. 05
    Philippines
    383+1026%
  6. 06
    Sri Lanka
    292+412%
  7. 07
    Turkey
    225+676%
  8. 08
    Samoa
    143+450%
  9. 09
    Fiji
    111+484%
  10. 10
    Nepal
    107+1429%

What's Mickleham's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    6,792+271%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    2,784+408%
  3. 03
    Islam
    2,404+1331%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    1,476+1062%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    362+341%

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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Mickleham is part of Hume, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.