Wangaratta, Victoria

Which languages are spoken in Wangaratta?

The 2021 Census found one in 25 residents in Wangaratta speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Italian is the largest group. Most other languages here have fewer than one speaker per 100 residents. In the City of Melbourne, a language other than English is at least twice as common.

Residents: 29,566
Speak another language: 1,305
Languages at home: 58
Change since 2016: +29.5%

Which languages are heard at home in Wangaratta?

Italian, Punjabi and Filipino are the three largest.

Italian

390 speakers

About 1.3 per cent of all residents.

Punjabi

76 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than doubled.

Filipino

65 speakers

It has more than tripled since 2016.

How does Wangaratta compare with Australia as a whole?

The national share is more than twice as high as Wangaratta's. Wangaratta is 48th of 79 across Victoria.

Wangaratta: 4.4%
Australia: 21.3%
City of Melbourne: 45.0%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Compare Wangaratta with every council on the diversity index.

Where in Wangaratta are other languages most common?

Even across 26 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Wangaratta.

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

Other sources sometimes quote 10.2% for Wangaratta. That figure treats the 1,725 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 4.4%, and 4.7% is the share among those who answered.

Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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