70 per cent.
Nearly 70 in every 100 Greater Dandenong residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Victoria.
Vietnamese is spoken by 18,772 of our residents at home, 12.1% of the council.
Khmer is spoken by 9,595 of our residents at home, 6.2% of the council.
Mandarin is spoken by 6,262 of our residents at home, 4.0% of the council.
128 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.
We share this portrait because Greater Dandenong is, genuinely, not like an "average" council. Services designed for the median Victoria resident arrive here in the wrong language. This Atlas exists so nobody writing policy about us, federal, state, corporate or media, can claim they did not know.
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.
70.2% of Greater Dandenong residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.6% for Victoria and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.