Malayalam
12 speakers
The community has more than tripled since 2016.
West Wimmera, Victoria
Which languages are spoken in West Wimmera?
Only one in 50 residents in West Wimmera speak a language other than English at home, the 2021 Census shows. Malayalam is the one heard most. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double.
- Residents
- 3,910
- Speak another language
- 75
- Languages at home
- 18
- Change since 2016
- +56.3%
What languages besides English do people speak in West Wimmera?
The largest communities are small, but they're here: Malayalam, Afrikaans and Bengali.
Where does West Wimmera sit against the City of Melbourne?
The share for the City of Melbourne is more than twice as high as West Wimmera's. Among Victoria councils, West Wimmera ranks 75th.
- West Wimmera
- 1.9%
- City of Melbourne
- 45.0%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
Compare West Wimmera with every council on the diversity index.
Which parts of West Wimmera are most multilingual?
Across 9 suburbs, Edenhope leads narrowly.
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
- EdenhopeLed by Malayalam4%40
- HarrowLed by Vietnamese2%7
- Miga LakeLed by Filipino2%4
- KanivaLed by Italian2%18
- MinimayLed by German2%3
- GorokeLed by Afrikaans1%3
- Apsley (Vic.)0%0
- Lillimur0%0
- Langkoop0%0
- 9 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 9.8% for West Wimmera. That figure treats the 309 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 1.9%, and 2.1% is the share among those who answered.
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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