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We are Bogan

We are Bogan.

Home to one of the larger Gujarati-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 12 other language communities besides.

Our population
2,466
Speak another language
277
Languages at home
13+
Growth since last census
+45.0%
13 languages are spoken at home in Bogan. Gujarati leads (11 speakers), with Fijian close behind (9). 11 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Gujarati at home
11
Our largest community language, Gujarati, is spoken by 0.4% of Bogan residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Gujarati
11 speakers

11 speakers, 0.4% of Bogan. +57% since 2021.

Fijian
9 speakers

9 speakers, 0.4% of Bogan. +80% since 2021.

Nepali
9 speakers

9 speakers, 0.4% of Bogan.

The languages of Bogan

13 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.

Gujarati
11 · +57.1%
Fijian
9 · +80.0%
Nepali
9 · 0.0%
Swahili
6 · 0.0%
Lao
6 · 0.0%
Indonesian
5 · 0.0%
Vietnamese
5 · 0.0%
Shona
5 · 0.0%
Maori (New Zealand)
4 · 0.0%
Malayalam
4 · -33.3%
Thai
4 · 0.0%
Spanish
4 · 0.0%
Mandarin
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Gujarati11 · 0.4%
    57.1%
  2. 02
    Fijian9 · 0.4%
    80.0%
  3. 03
    Nepali9 · 0.4%
    0.0%
  4. 04
    Swahili6 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  5. 05
    Lao6 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Indonesian5 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese5 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Shona5 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Maori (New Zealand)4 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Malayalam4 · 0.2%
    33.3%
  11. 11
    Thai4 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    Spanish4 · 0.2%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Fijian
+80.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are
In context
Bogan
11.2%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

11.2% of Bogan residents speak a language other than English at home, against 31.4% for New South Wales and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.