Liverpool Plains, New South Wales

Which languages are spoken in Liverpool Plains?

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.

Residents
7,516
Speak another language
160
Languages at home
21
Change since 2016
+255.6%

What's spoken in Liverpool Plains apart from English?

Small as they are, Malayalam, Nepali and Spanish are the largest.

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Malayalam

11 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Nepali

11 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Spanish

9 speakers

The community has more than doubled since 2016.

How does Liverpool Plains compare with the City of Sydney?

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.

Liverpool Plains
2.1%
City of Sydney
33.9%
Australia
21.3%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Every council ranked, Liverpool Plains included.

Which suburbs of Liverpool Plains have the most speakers of other languages?

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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