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Latrobe, Victoria

Languages spoken in Latrobe (Vic.)

The 2021 Census counted one in 18 residents in Latrobe using a language other than English at home, and Italian tops that list. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. Latrobe's share is well under the share for Victoria.

Residents
76,623
Speak another language
4,310
Languages at home
97
Change since 2016
+8.9%

Who speaks another language at home in Latrobe?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Italian, Greek and Mandarin.

Italian

601 speakers

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

Greek

271 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has fallen by more than a quarter.

Mandarin

245 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Which languages make up most of Latrobe's multilingual community?

The quickest growth among the five is Tagalog, which has grown by about three quarters.

The five largest languages other than English, with the change since 2016. The full list is one click away.

  1. 01
    Italian
    601-25.8%
  2. 02
    Greek
    271-26.0%
  3. 03
    Mandarin
    245-3.9%
  4. 04
    Tagalog
    208+82.5%
  5. 05
    Malayalam
    206+178%

How does Latrobe compare with the City of Melbourne?

In the City of Melbourne, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among Victoria councils, Latrobe ranks 41st.

Latrobe (Vic.)
5.6%
City of Melbourne
45.0%
Victoria
26.6%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Compare Latrobe with every council on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Latrobe have the largest multilingual communities?

Even across 25 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Morwell.

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

What do birthplace and religion add in Latrobe?

Among residents born overseas, England leads.

Country of birth

11.0% born overseas, across 92 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    2,027+6.6%
  2. 02
    New Zealand
    723+14.8%
  3. 03
    Netherlands
    613-13.7%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    607+67.2%
  5. 05
    India
    549+109%
  6. 06
    Italy
    495-16.7%
  7. 07
    Germany
    427-3.2%
  8. 08
    Scotland
    416-22.4%
  9. 09
    Malta
    271-10.3%
  10. 10
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    203-6.5%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    37,255+42.0%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    31,321-17.4%
  3. 03
    Islam
    564+101%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    511-8.4%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    282+31.2%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    16+433%

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.

5.6% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 5,682 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 13.0%; among respondents alone it's 6.1%.

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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