Mandarin
316 speakers
About 0.9 per cent of all residents.
Warrnambool, Victoria
Which languages are spoken in Warrnambool?
Mandarin is the most common language after English in Warrnambool, though only one in 25 residents speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. On its own, no other language reaches one in 100. Warrnambool's share is well under the share for Victoria.
- Residents
- 35,393
- Speak another language
- 1,570
- Languages at home
- 69
- Change since 2016
- +37.1%
What's spoken in Warrnambool apart from English?
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
Vietnamese
123 speakers
Between the last two censuses it has more than tripled.
Sinhalese
93 speakers
It has grown by more than half since 2016.
How far is Warrnambool from the City of Melbourne on languages?
In the City of Melbourne, a language other than English is at least twice as common. In the Victoria table, Warrnambool is 46th of 79.
- Warrnambool
- 4.4%
- City of Melbourne
- 45.0%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.
Do Warrnambool's suburbs differ much?
The 5 suburbs sit close together, Warrnambool at the top.
Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.
- WarrnamboolLed by Mandarin5%1,485
- DenningtonLed by Mandarin3%55
- AllansfordLed by Greek2%21
- BushfieldLed by Russian1%9
- Woodford (Vic.)0%0
- 5 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
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 10.1% for Warrnambool. That figure treats the 2,007 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 4.4%, and 4.7% 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.
Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.
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