Punjabi
20,957 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 20,957 of our residents at home, 7.2% of Wyndham.
We are Wyndham
49 per cent.
Nearly 49 in every 100 Wyndham residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Victoria.
- Our population
- 289,685
- Speak another language
- 142,078
- Languages at home
- 162
- Growth since last census
- +64.4%
Punjabi, Hindi and Mandarin are spoken here in numbers that shape how the place works. 142k of us — 49.0% — speak a language other than English at home, so an English-only notice reaches barely half the households it was addressed to.
In Victoria
#4
of 79 Victoria councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #35 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Hindi
14,029 speakers
Hindi is spoken by 14,029 of our residents at home, 4.8% of Wyndham.
Mandarin
10,517 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 10,517 of our residents at home, 3.6% of Wyndham.
The languages of Wyndham
162 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
Marathi
+263.9% since last census
We share this portrait because Wyndham is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 1.8 times the Victoria figure. Services designed for the median Victoria resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Marathi grew 263.9% since the last census, to 1,208 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
46.4% of us were born overseas, across 161 countries.
- 01India50,676+126%
- 02New Zealand9,525+24.3%
- 03Philippines7,731+35.2%
- 04China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)7,426+35.8%
- 05England4,694-5.0%
- 06Pakistan4,473+128%
- 07Sri Lanka2,877+44.5%
- 08Bangladesh2,641+75.8%
- 09Myanmar2,611+30.4%
- 10Malaysia2,584+32.9%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Wyndham at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity104,435+4.0%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs68,695+37.2%
- 03Hinduism42,704+128%
- 04Islam29,267+84.9%
- 05Buddhism8,059+36.9%
- 06Judaism73+1.4%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 12 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- TruganinaTop language — Punjabi67%24,025
- TarneitTop language — Punjabi64%35,635
- Williams LandingTop language — Mandarin62%5,748
- Point CookTop language — Mandarin51%33,431
- Manor LakesTop language — Hindi51%6,376
- MambourinTop language — Tamil50%147
- Wyndham ValeTop language — Punjabi38%7,697
- Hoppers CrossingTop language — Arabic37%13,365
- WerribeeTop language — Punjabi31%15,069
- Werribee SouthTop language — Italian18%425
- Little River (Vic.)Top language — Arabic12%160
- Laverton North0%0
- 12 suburbs in Wyndham. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Wyndham 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
- Wyndham
- 49.0%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
49.0% of Wyndham 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. 49.0% is 142,078 residents as a share of all 289,685 of us. A further 18,209 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 55.3%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 52.3%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Wyndham, 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 Wyndham 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 Wyndham.