Malay
416 speakers
Malay is spoken by 416 of our residents at home, 2.0% of Swan Hill.
We are Swan Hill
16 per cent.
About 16 in every 100 Swan Hill residents speak a language other than English at home, across 70 languages.
- Our population
- 21,245
- Speak another language
- 3,312
- Languages at home
- 70
- Growth since last census
- +55.5%
3,312 of us — 15.6% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Malay, Mandarin and Vietnamese. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Victoria
#28
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #126 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Mandarin
415 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 415 of our residents at home, 2.0% of Swan Hill.
Vietnamese
396 speakers
Vietnamese is spoken by 396 of our residents at home, 1.9% of Swan Hill.
The languages of Swan Hill
70 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.
- 01416+1161%
- 02415+153%
- 03396+85.0%
- 04324-12.7%
- 05269+8.9%
- 06213+19.7%
- 07121+124%
- 0880+105%
- 0968+6.3%
- 1064+28.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+153.0% 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. 3,312 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.
Mandarin grew 153.0% since the last census, to 415 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
15.6% of us were born overseas, across 60 countries.
- 01Malaysia776+421%
- 02Vietnam357+120%
- 03India274+11.8%
- 04Philippines190+97.9%
- 05England184-0.5%
- 06Italy184-19.7%
- 07Tonga167+38.0%
- 08China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)117+234%
- 09Thailand114+200%
- 10South Africa88+46.7%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Swan Hill at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity9,896-12.1%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs7,700+39.4%
- 03Buddhism735+75.4%
- 04Islam639+105%
- 05Hinduism132+20.0%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 19 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- RobinvaleTop language — Tongan42%1,495
- WemenTop language — Mandarin31%111
- Tol TolTop language — Mandarin26%47
- Boundary BendTop language — Samoan22%57
- WoorinenTop language — Malay16%57
- NyahTop language — Malay16%98
- Swan HillTop language — Punjabi12%1,282
- PiangilTop language — Malay10%27
- ViniferaTop language — Malay6%17
- Nyah WestTop language — Mandarin5%34
- BeverfordTop language — Mandarin5%17
- MurraweeTop language — Tongan5%18
- Lake BogaTop language — Italian3%41
- WaitchieTop language — Estonian1%4
- ManangatangTop language — German1%4
- Woorinen SouthTop language — Mandarin1%3
- Tyntynder0%0
- Kunat0%0
- Pental Island0%0
- 19 suburbs in Swan Hill. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Swan Hill 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
- Swan Hill
- 15.6%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
15.6% of Swan Hill 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. 15.6% is 3,312 residents as a share of all 21,245 of us. A further 1,886 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 24.5%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 17.1%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Swan Hill, 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 Swan Hill 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 Swan Hill.