Malayalam
18 speakers
It has more than tripled since 2016.
Narrandera, New South Wales
Languages spoken in Narrandera
The 2021 Census found 161 people in Narrandera speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Malayalam is the largest group. Nepali is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. In the City of Sydney, the share speaking another language is more than double.
- Residents
- 5,501
- Speak another language
- 161
- Languages at home
- 30
- Change since 2016
- +54.8%
Which languages are heard at home in Narrandera?
Small as they are, Malayalam, Nepali and Afrikaans are the largest.
Where does Narrandera sit against Australia as a whole?
Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double. In the New South Wales table, Narrandera is 84th of 128.
- Narrandera
- 2.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- City of Sydney
- 33.9%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
Compare Narrandera with every council on the diversity index.
Where in Narrandera are other languages most common?
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
- Grong GrongLed by Mandarin4%18
- NarranderaLed by Malayalam3%123
- GillenbahLed by Afrikaans3%10
- BarellanLed by Tamil2%6
- KamarahLed by Mandarin1%4
- 5 suburbs in Narrandera. The percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
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.
2.9% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 569 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 13.3%; among respondents alone it's 3.3%.
National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.
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