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We are Leeton

We are Leeton.

Home to one of the larger Italian-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 40 other language communities besides.

Our population
11,480
Speak another language
1,984
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+125.8%
41 languages are spoken at home in Leeton. Italian leads (241 speakers), with Punjabi close behind (167). 17 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
241
Our largest community language, Italian, is spoken by 2.1% of Leeton residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Italian
241 speakers

241 speakers, 2.1% of Leeton. -27% since 2021.

Punjabi
167 speakers

167 speakers, 1.5% of Leeton. +82% since 2021.

Mandarin
112 speakers

112 speakers, 1.0% of Leeton. +600% since 2021.

The languages of Leeton

41 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
241 · -27.2%
Punjabi
167 · +81.5%
Mandarin
112 · +600.0%
Filipino
63 · +57.5%
Malay
Afrikaans
24 · +300.0%
Tagalog
22 · -18.5%
Hazaraghi
22 · -35.3%
Samoan
20 · -39.4%
Indonesian
19 · 0.0%
Thai
19
Urdu
17
Wiradjuri
15
Japanese
15
Fijian
14
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Italian241 · 2.1%
    27.2%
  2. 02
    Punjabi167 · 1.5%
    81.5%
  3. 03
    Mandarin112 · 1.0%
    600.0%
  4. 04
    Filipino63 · 0.5%
    57.5%
  5. 05
    Malay31 · 0.3%
    210.0%
  6. 06
    Afrikaans24 · 0.2%
    300.0%
  7. 07
    Tagalog22 · 0.2%
    18.5%
  8. 08
    Hazaraghi22 · 0.2%
    35.3%
  9. 09
    Samoan20 · 0.2%
    39.4%
  10. 10
    Indonesian19 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Thai19 · 0.2%
    35.7%
  12. 12
    Urdu17 · 0.1%
    325.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+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
Leeton
17.3%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

17.3% of Leeton 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.