Italian
48 speakers
The community has grown by more than half since 2016.
Indigo, Victoria
Languages other than English in Indigo
Italian is the most common language after English in Indigo, though only one in 70 residents speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. On its own, no other language reaches one in 100. Only 94 councils have a lower share.
- Residents
- 16,944
- Speak another language
- 257
- Languages at home
- 29
- Change since 2016
- +2.8%
What languages besides English do people speak in Indigo?
Small as they are, Italian, German and Auslan are the largest.
Where does Indigo sit against Australia as a whole?
The national share is more than twice as high as Indigo's. In the Victoria table, Indigo is 78th of 79.
- Indigo
- 1.5%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- City of Melbourne
- 45.0%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
How even is Indigo from suburb to suburb?
The share barely changes across 17 suburbs; Beechworth is highest.
Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.
- Stanley (Vic.)Led by Italian4%14
- BeechworthLed by Italian3%132
- KergunyahLed by German3%7
- Indigo ValleyLed by German3%10
- TangambalangaLed by Dutch2%10
- Allans FlatLed by Swedish2%9
- BarnawarthaLed by Auslan2%17
- Chiltern ValleyLed by Portuguese1%4
- Sandy Creek (Vic.)Led by French1%7
- WahgunyahLed by Mandarin1%12
- ChilternLed by Auslan1%13
- RutherglenLed by Italian1%15
- YackandandahLed by Dutch0%7
- Huon0%0
- Brimin0%0
- Wooragee0%0
- Kiewa0%0
- 17 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
1.5% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 1,057 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 7.8%; among respondents alone it's 1.6%.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
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