Newtown, Ipswich

What Newtown speaks at home

Newtown is overwhelmingly English-speaking: about 1,400 people use only English at home, according to the 2021 Census. Every other language is spoken by fewer than one in 100 residents. Newtown's share is below Ipswich. It's a short list: 10 languages in all.

Residents
1,467
Speak another language
3.1%+28.6%
Languages spoken
10
Born overseas
10.7%

Which languages other than English are spoken in Newtown?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Tongan
    9+200%
  2. 02
    Malayalam
    6+20.0%
  3. 03
    Japanese
    5
  4. 04
    Auslan
    4
  5. 05
    Mandarin
    4
  6. 06
    Tamil
    4+33.3%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese
    4
  8. 08
    Filipino
    3
  9. 09
    Italian
    30%
  10. 10
    Tagalog
    3

Where does Newtown sit against Australia as a whole?

Newtown's share is below Australia as a whole.

Newtown (Ipswich - Qld)
3.1%
Ipswich
13.0%
Australia
21.3%

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

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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Newtown (Ipswich - Qld) is part of Ipswich, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.