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We are Goulburn Mulwaree

We are Goulburn Mulwaree.

Home to one of the larger Nepali-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 65 other language communities besides.

Our population
31,364
Speak another language
4,137
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+116.2%
66 languages are spoken at home in Goulburn Mulwaree. Nepali leads (158 speakers), with Mandarin close behind (134). 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
158
Our largest community language, Nepali, is spoken by 0.5% of Goulburn Mulwaree residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
158 speakers

158 speakers, 0.5% of Goulburn Mulwaree. +316% since 2021.

Mandarin
134 speakers

134 speakers, 0.4% of Goulburn Mulwaree. +120% since 2021.

Greek
109 speakers

109 speakers, 0.3% of Goulburn Mulwaree. +79% since 2021.

The languages of Goulburn Mulwaree

66 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
158 · +315.8%
Mandarin
134 · +119.7%
Greek
109 · +78.7%
Arabic
103 · +74.6%
Malayalam
92 · +130.0%
Punjabi
70 · +133.3%
Tagalog
56 · +69.7%
Hindi
49 · +104.2%
Bengali
45 · +125.0%
Urdu
42 · +600.0%
Thai
39 · 0.0%
Spanish
38 · -2.6%
Indonesian
37 · +311.1%
Korean
36 · -35.7%
Italian
35 · -5.4%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Nepali158 · 0.5%
    315.8%
  2. 02
    Mandarin134 · 0.4%
    119.7%
  3. 03
    Greek109 · 0.3%
    78.7%
  4. 04
    Arabic103 · 0.3%
    74.6%
  5. 05
    Malayalam92 · 0.3%
    130.0%
  6. 06
    Punjabi70 · 0.2%
    133.3%
  7. 07
    Tagalog56 · 0.2%
    69.7%
  8. 08
    Hindi49 · 0.2%
    104.2%
  9. 09
    Bengali45 · 0.1%
    125.0%
  10. 10
    Urdu42 · 0.1%
    600.0%
  11. 11
    Thai39 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    Spanish38 · 0.1%
    2.6%
Fastest-growing among us
Urdu
+600.0% 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
Where we are
In context
Goulburn Mulwaree
13.2%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

13.2% of Goulburn Mulwaree 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.