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We are Goyder

We are Goyder.

Home to one of the larger Greek-speaking communities in South Australia, and 7 other language communities besides.

Our population
4,039
Speak another language
337
Languages at home
8+
Growth since last census
+65.8%
8 languages are spoken at home in Goyder. Greek leads (13 speakers), with German close behind (12). 8 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 Greek at home
13
Our largest community language, Greek, is spoken by 0.3% of Goyder residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Greek
13 speakers

13 speakers, 0.3% of Goyder.

German
12 speakers

12 speakers, 0.3% of Goyder. +71% since 2021.

Dutch
6 speakers

6 speakers, 0.1% of Goyder. +100% since 2021.

The languages of Goyder

8 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.

Greek
13 · 0.0%
German
12 · +71.4%
Dutch
6 · +100.0%
Thai
5 · 0.0%
Gujarati
4 · 0.0%
Sinhalese
3 · -25.0%
Tagalog
3 · 0.0%
Shona
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Greek13 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  2. 02
    German12 · 0.3%
    71.4%
  3. 03
    Dutch6 · 0.1%
    100.0%
  4. 04
    Thai5 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  5. 05
    Gujarati4 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Sinhalese3 · 0.1%
    25.0%
  7. 07
    Tagalog3 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Shona3 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Dutch
+100.0% 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
Goyder
8.3%
South Australia
20.5%
Australia
27.3%

8.3% of Goyder residents speak a language other than English at home, against 20.5% for South Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.