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We are Hepburn

We are Hepburn.

Home to one of the larger Italian-speaking communities in Victoria, and 42 other language communities besides.

Our population
16,315
Speak another language
1,840
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+52.9%
43 languages are spoken at home in Hepburn. Italian leads (57 speakers), with Mandarin close behind (38). 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 Italian at home
57
Our largest community language, Italian, is spoken by 0.3% of Hepburn residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Italian
57 speakers

57 speakers, 0.3% of Hepburn. +33% since 2021.

Mandarin
38 speakers

38 speakers, 0.2% of Hepburn. +58% since 2021.

Serbian
38 speakers

38 speakers, 0.2% of Hepburn. +6% since 2021.

The languages of Hepburn

43 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.

Italian
57 · +32.6%
Mandarin
38 · +58.3%
Serbian
38 · +5.6%
Nepali
36 · +227.3%
Dutch
27 · -15.6%
German
27 · -49.1%
Greek
22 · -26.7%
French
20 · -50.0%
Croatian
19 · -42.4%
Maltese
19 · -5.0%
Spanish
18 · +80.0%
Thai
17 · +240.0%
Japanese
16 · +433.3%
Hindi
16 · 0.0%
Punjabi
16 · +23.1%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Italian57 · 0.3%
    32.6%
  2. 02
    Mandarin38 · 0.2%
    58.3%
  3. 03
    Serbian38 · 0.2%
    5.6%
  4. 04
    Nepali36 · 0.2%
    227.3%
  5. 05
    Dutch27 · 0.2%
    15.6%
  6. 06
    German27 · 0.2%
    49.1%
  7. 07
    Greek22 · 0.1%
    26.7%
  8. 08
    French20 · 0.1%
    50.0%
  9. 09
    Croatian19 · 0.1%
    42.4%
  10. 10
    Maltese19 · 0.1%
    5.0%
  11. 11
    Spanish18 · 0.1%
    80.0%
  12. 12
    Thai17 · 0.1%
    240.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Japanese
+433.3% 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
Hepburn
11.3%
Victoria
32.6%
Australia
27.3%

11.3% of Hepburn residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.6% for Victoria and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.