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We are Litchfield

We are Litchfield.

Home to one of the larger Vietnamese-speaking communities in Northern Territory, and 60 other language communities besides.

Our population
21,110
Speak another language
4,193
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+15.0%
61 languages are spoken at home in Litchfield. Vietnamese leads (131 speakers), with Thai close behind (110). 20 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 Vietnamese at home
131
Our largest community language, Vietnamese, is spoken by 0.6% of Litchfield residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Vietnamese
131 speakers

131 speakers, 0.6% of Litchfield. -43% since 2021.

Thai
110 speakers

110 speakers, 0.5% of Litchfield. +59% since 2021.

Greek
84 speakers

84 speakers, 0.4% of Litchfield. +11% since 2021.

The languages of Litchfield

61 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.

Vietnamese
131 · -42.5%
Thai
110 · +59.4%
Greek
84 · +10.5%
German
62 · -1.6%
Mandarin
49 · +2.1%
Indonesian
40 · -36.5%
Khmer
38 · -20.8%
Kriol
25 · +257.1%
Filipino
25 · -58.3%
Tagalog
23 · -65.2%
Afrikaans
20 · +17.6%
French
20 · -25.9%
Dutch
19 · -13.6%
Malay
19 · +72.7%
Korean
17 · -22.7%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Vietnamese131 · 0.6%
    42.5%
  2. 02
    Thai110 · 0.5%
    59.4%
  3. 03
    Greek84 · 0.4%
    10.5%
  4. 04
    German62 · 0.3%
    1.6%
  5. 05
    Mandarin49 · 0.2%
    2.1%
  6. 06
    Indonesian40 · 0.2%
    36.5%
  7. 07
    Khmer38 · 0.2%
    20.8%
  8. 08
    Kriol25 · 0.1%
    257.1%
  9. 09
    Filipino25 · 0.1%
    58.3%
  10. 10
    Tagalog23 · 0.1%
    65.2%
  11. 11
    Afrikaans20 · 0.1%
    17.6%
  12. 12
    French20 · 0.1%
    25.9%
Fastest-growing among us
Kriol
+257.1% 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
Litchfield
19.9%
Northern Territory
40.9%
Australia
27.3%

19.9% of Litchfield residents speak a language other than English at home, against 40.9% for Northern Territory and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.