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Languages spoken in Ballarat

5.9% of Ballarat residents speak a language other than English at home, across 104 languages (ABS Census 2021).

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112,100

Residents

5.9%

+52.9%

Speak a language other than English

104

Languages spoken

#223

of 540 for diversity

Most spoken languages

Speakers at the 2021 Census, with change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    902+17.0%
  2. 02
    Punjabi
    714+182%
  3. 03
    Malayalam
    465+106%
  4. 04
    Hindi
    389+95.5%
  5. 05
    Nepali
    217+471%
  6. 06
    Sinhalese
    211+129%
  7. 07
    Urdu
    204+165%
  8. 08
    Filipino
    198+96.0%
  9. 09
    Vietnamese
    177+101%
  10. 10
    Spanish
    176+126%

104 languages recorded in Ballarat(ABS Census 2021). Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in the totals above but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.

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