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Community Atlas · Australia

Every language, every suburb.

A free, interactive portrait of the linguistic and cultural communities that make up Australia. From the whole country down to a single suburb.

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Census 2021 · Updated Apr 2026
Australians counted
24,595,645
Speak a language other than English at home
6,654,567
27.1% of the population
Individual languages recorded
346+
at suburb level
Councils covered
549
every LGA in Australia
916,204 records · PostgREST · Free to use

Browse by state

8STATES & TERRITORIES
VIC31.9%
Victoria
6,410,542 · 80 LGAs
NSW31.5%
New South Wales
7,961,571 · 128 LGAs
QLD18.5%
Queensland
5,078,674 · 79 LGAs
SA21.5%
South Australia
1,754,429 · 71 LGAs
WA23.6%
Western Australia
2,616,761 · 139 LGAs
TAS13.0%
Tasmania
550,634 · 30 LGAs
NT41.8%
Northern Territory
218,907 · 20 LGAs
ACT20.4%
Australian Capital Territory
454,499 · 0 LGAs

Most linguistically diverse councils

BY CALD SHARE · NATIONAL
NSW · LGA
Fairfield
76.4%
speak LOTE at home
▲8.5%
Top languageVietnamese
NSW · LGA
Cumberland
73.0%
speak LOTE at home
▲1.4%
Top languageArabic
NSW · LGA
Strathfield
70.4%
speak LOTE at home
▲17.9%
Top languageMandarin
VIC · LGA
Greater Dandenong
70.2%
speak LOTE at home
▲10.3%
Top languageVietnamese
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