Wellington, Victoria

Languages spoken in Wellington

English is the only language spoken at home by about 40,000 people in Wellington, according to the 2021 Census, and Mandarin is the most common of the others. The top two are almost level. Across Victoria, the share speaking another language is more than double.

Residents: 44,911
Speak another language: 1,327
Languages at home: 65
Change since 2016: +3.5%

Who speaks something other than English in Wellington?

These three top a list of small communities.

Mandarin

103 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Tagalog

102 speakers

The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Vietnamese

74 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

What sets Wellington apart from Australia as a whole?

Wellington's share is less than half the national share. Wellington sits in the lower half of Victoria's councils, at 61st of 79.

Wellington: 3.0%
Australia: 21.3%
Victoria: 26.6%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

Wellington's place on the diversity index.

Do Wellington's suburbs differ much?

From Sale down to Fulham, the gap is modest.

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

Blank answers matter here. 4,007 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 3.0%. Count them in and it's 11.9%; drop them from the base and it's 3.2%.

Figures for Wellington itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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