Swahili
283 speakers
Swahili is spoken by 283 of our residents at home, 0.7% of Wodonga.
We are Wodonga
6 per cent.
6 in every 100 Wodonga residents speak a language other than English at home. 2,635 people, in 85 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.
- Our population
- 43,152
- Speak another language
- 2,635
- Languages at home
- 85
- Growth since last census
- +36.7%
Most of us speak English at home. 2,635 of us do not, across 85 languages, most often Swahili, Nepali and Vietnamese. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.
In Victoria
#38
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #220 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
220 speakers
Nepali is spoken by 220 of our residents at home, 0.5% of Wodonga.
Vietnamese
187 speakers
Vietnamese is spoken by 187 of our residents at home, 0.4% of Wodonga.
The languages of Wodonga
85 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.
Fastest-growing among us
Nepali
+14.0% 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. 2,635 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.
Nepali grew 14.0% since the last census, to 220 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
9.3% of us were born overseas, across 83 countries.
- 01England811+14.9%
- 02India400+37.5%
- 03New Zealand383+33.4%
- 04Germany279+3.7%
- 05Philippines258+24.0%
- 06Congo, Democratic Republic of182+225%
- 07Vietnam170+5567%
- 08Netherlands131+21.3%
- 09Scotland108+4.9%
- 10Nepal97+26.0%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Wodonga at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity20,029-11.2%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs19,385+54.8%
- 03Hinduism489+37.7%
- 04Buddhism343+11.4%
- 05Islam154+35.1%
- 06Judaism14
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 10 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- WodongaTop language — Swahili8%1,703
- LenevaTop language — Swahili6%75
- Killara (Wodonga - Vic.)Top language — Nepali5%72
- West WodongaTop language — Vietnamese4%657
- BonegillaTop language — Serbian4%12
- EbdenTop language — Macedonian3%14
- Staghorn FlatTop language — Croatian2%12
- Huon CreekTop language — Auslan2%9
- BarandudaTop language — Auslan2%64
- BandianaTop language — German2%17
- 10 suburbs in Wodonga. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Wodonga 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
- Wodonga
- 6.1%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
6.1% of Wodonga 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. 6.1% is 2,635 residents as a share of all 43,152 of us. A further 2,151 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 11.1%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 6.4%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Wodonga, 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 Wodonga 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 Wodonga.