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We are Glen Innes Severn

We are Glen Innes Severn.

Home to one of the larger Nepali-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 16 other language communities besides.

Our population
8,879
Speak another language
1,147
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+135.4%
17 languages are spoken at home in Glen Innes Severn. Nepali leads (41 speakers), with Malayalam close behind (23). 13 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 Nepali at home
41
Our largest community language, Nepali, is spoken by 0.5% of Glen Innes Severn residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
41 speakers

41 speakers, 0.5% of Glen Innes Severn. +242% since 2021.

Malayalam
23 speakers

23 speakers, 0.3% of Glen Innes Severn.

Mandarin
19 speakers

19 speakers, 0.2% of Glen Innes Severn. +171% since 2021.

The languages of Glen Innes Severn

17 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.

Nepali
41 · +241.7%
Malayalam
23 · 0.0%
Mandarin
19 · +171.4%
Japanese
9 · +12.5%
Cantonese
8
Dutch
6 · -33.3%
Korean
6 · +100.0%
Gamilaraay
6 · 0.0%
Italian
5 · 0.0%
Afrikaans
4 · -69.2%
Ndebele
4
Arabic
3
Lao
3
Danish
3
Hindi
3
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Nepali41 · 0.5%
    241.7%
  2. 02
    Malayalam23 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  3. 03
    Mandarin19 · 0.2%
    171.4%
  4. 04
    Japanese9 · 0.1%
    12.5%
  5. 05
    Cantonese8 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Dutch6 · 0.1%
    33.3%
  7. 07
    Korean6 · 0.1%
    100.0%
  8. 08
    Gamilaraay6 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Italian5 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Afrikaans4 · 0.0%
    69.2%
  11. 11
    Ndebele4 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    Arabic3 · 0.0%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Nepali
+241.7% 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
Glen Innes Severn
12.9%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

12.9% of Glen Innes Severn 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.