Malayalam
11 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
Liverpool Plains, New South Wales
Malayalam is the most common language after English in Liverpool Plains, though only 160 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Fewer than 100 councils have a lower share. The number speaking another language at home grew by more than a quarter in five years.
Small as they are, Malayalam, Nepali and Spanish are the largest.
In the City of Sydney, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Liverpool Plains is 119th of 128 across New South Wales.
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
The 11 suburbs sit close together, Quirindi at the top.
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
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 13.5% for Liverpool Plains. That figure treats the 852 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 2.1%, and 2.4% 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.
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