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We are Horsham

We are Horsham.

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

Our population
20,326
Speak another language
1,930
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+103.6%
43 languages are spoken at home in Horsham. Karen leads (114 speakers), with Malayalam close behind (94). 9 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 Karen at home
114
Our largest community language, Karen, is spoken by 0.6% of Horsham residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Karen
114 speakers

114 speakers, 0.6% of Horsham. +148% since 2021.

Malayalam
94 speakers

94 speakers, 0.5% of Horsham. +38% since 2021.

Mandarin
50 speakers

50 speakers, 0.2% of Horsham. +6% since 2021.

The languages of Horsham

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.

Karen
114 · +147.8%
Malayalam
94 · +38.2%
Mandarin
50 · +6.4%
Punjabi
50 · +316.7%
Italian
47 · -37.3%
Nepali
36 · +227.3%
Tagalog
33 · +22.2%
Filipino
32 · +60.0%
Afrikaans
22 · +340.0%
Hindi
22 · +29.4%
Turkish
22 · -29.0%
Spanish
21 · +200.0%
Gujarati
20 · +150.0%
Vietnamese
20 · +233.3%
Sinhalese
18 · +20.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Karen114 · 0.6%
    147.8%
  2. 02
    Malayalam94 · 0.5%
    38.2%
  3. 03
    Mandarin50 · 0.2%
    6.4%
  4. 04
    Punjabi50 · 0.2%
    316.7%
  5. 05
    Italian47 · 0.2%
    37.3%
  6. 06
    Nepali36 · 0.2%
    227.3%
  7. 07
    Tagalog33 · 0.2%
    22.2%
  8. 08
    Filipino32 · 0.2%
    60.0%
  9. 09
    Afrikaans22 · 0.1%
    340.0%
  10. 10
    Hindi22 · 0.1%
    29.4%
  11. 11
    Turkish22 · 0.1%
    29.0%
  12. 12
    Spanish21 · 0.1%
    200.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Afrikaans
+340.0% 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
Horsham
9.5%
Victoria
32.6%
Australia
27.3%

9.5% of Horsham residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.6% for Victoria and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.