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We are Mid Murray

We are Mid Murray.

Home to one of the larger German-speaking communities in South Australia, and 15 other language communities besides.

Our population
9,077
Speak another language
1,044
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+23.1%
16 languages are spoken at home in Mid Murray. German leads (14 speakers), with Tagalog close behind (8). 12 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 German at home
14
Our largest community language, German, is spoken by 0.2% of Mid Murray residents at home.
What makes our community ours
German
14 speakers

14 speakers, 0.2% of Mid Murray. +8% since 2021.

Tagalog
8 speakers

8 speakers, 0.1% of Mid Murray. -27% since 2021.

Thai
8 speakers

8 speakers, 0.1% of Mid Murray. +100% since 2021.

The languages of Mid Murray

16 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.

German
14 · +7.7%
Tagalog
8 · -27.3%
Thai
8 · +100.0%
French
8 · +60.0%
Telugu
7 · +133.3%
Khmer
6 · 0.0%
Gujarati
5 · 0.0%
Japanese
4 · 0.0%
Dutch
4 · -76.5%
Korean
4 · -20.0%
Greek
3 · -25.0%
Hungarian
3 · 0.0%
Danish
3 · 0.0%
Shona
3 · 0.0%
Maltese
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    German14 · 0.2%
    7.7%
  2. 02
    Tagalog8 · 0.1%
    27.3%
  3. 03
    Thai8 · 0.1%
    100.0%
  4. 04
    French8 · 0.1%
    60.0%
  5. 05
    Telugu7 · 0.1%
    133.3%
  6. 06
    Khmer6 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Gujarati5 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Japanese4 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Dutch4 · 0.0%
    76.5%
  10. 10
    Korean4 · 0.0%
    20.0%
  11. 11
    Greek3 · 0.0%
    25.0%
  12. 12
    Hungarian3 · 0.0%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Telugu
+133.3% 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
Mid Murray
11.5%
South Australia
20.5%
Australia
27.3%

11.5% of Mid Murray residents speak a language other than English at home, against 20.5% for South Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.