Punjabi
1,132 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 1,132 of our residents at home, 2.3% of Mitchell.
We are Mitchell
11 per cent.
About 11 in every 100 Mitchell residents speak a language other than English at home, across 88 languages.
- Our population
- 49,282
- Speak another language
- 5,222
- Languages at home
- 88
- Growth since last census
- +95.2%
5,222 of us — 10.6% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Punjabi, Italian and Hindi. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Victoria
#32
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #159 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Italian
378 speakers
Italian is spoken by 378 of our residents at home, 0.8% of Mitchell.
Hindi
275 speakers
Hindi is spoken by 275 of our residents at home, 0.6% of Mitchell.
The languages of Mitchell
88 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Punjabi
+630.3% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the Victoria average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 5,222 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Punjabi grew 630.3% since the last census, to 1,132 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
12.6% of us were born overseas, across 91 countries.
- 01England1,240+15.5%
- 02India1,211+379%
- 03New Zealand685+59.3%
- 04Italy266+7.3%
- 05Philippines232+33.3%
- 06China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)179-17.9%
- 07South Africa154+77.0%
- 08Sri Lanka148+108%
- 09Germany142-0.7%
- 10Malta123-12.1%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Mitchell at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity21,606-3.4%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs21,161+60.4%
- 03Islam847+130%
- 04Hinduism603+268%
- 05Buddhism406+32.7%
- 06Judaism3-62.5%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 20 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- BeveridgeTop language — Punjabi25%1,150
- WallanTop language — Punjabi18%2,616
- Upper PlentyTop language — Macedonian8%34
- Kilmore EastTop language — Turkish7%33
- KilmoreTop language — Punjabi6%587
- TooboracTop language — Italian6%26
- Waterford ParkTop language — Auslan6%12
- Seymour (Vic.)Top language — Mandarin5%352
- WandongTop language — Italian5%71
- High CampTop language — Malayalam4%22
- PyalongTop language — German4%32
- Sugarloaf CreekTop language — Italian3%15
- PuckapunyalTop language — Malay3%35
- BroadfordTop language — Greek3%158
- Heathcote JunctionTop language — Macedonian3%25
- TallarookTop language — Afrikaans3%24
- HilldeneTop language — German3%13
- Whiteheads CreekTop language — Auslan2%8
- ClonbinaneTop language — Finnish2%9
- Reedy Creek (Vic.)0%0
- 20 suburbs in Mitchell. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Mitchell shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Mitchell
- 10.6%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
10.6% of Mitchell residents speak a language other than English at home, against 26.6% for Victoria and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
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.
How the headline share is counted. 10.6% is 5,222 residents as a share of all 49,282 of us. A further 2,987 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 16.7%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 11.3%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Mitchell, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Mitchell figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Mitchell.