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We are Moira

We are Moira.

Home to one of the larger Italian-speaking communities in Victoria, and 52 other language communities besides.

Our population
30,210
Speak another language
3,514
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+106.6%
53 languages are spoken at home in Moira. Italian leads (243 speakers), with Mandarin close behind (208). 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 Italian at home
243
Our largest community language, Italian, is spoken by 0.8% of Moira residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Italian
243 speakers

243 speakers, 0.8% of Moira. -23% since 2021.

Mandarin
208 speakers

208 speakers, 0.7% of Moira. +343% since 2021.

Punjabi
139 speakers

139 speakers, 0.5% of Moira. +31% since 2021.

The languages of Moira

53 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
243 · -23.3%
Mandarin
208 · +342.6%
Punjabi
139 · +31.1%
Malay
74 · +572.7%
Arabic
59
Tagalog
54 · +50.0%
Thai
54 · +107.7%
Filipino
42 · +7.7%
Cantonese
33 · +10.0%
German
32 · +100.0%
Dutch
28
Malayalam
27
Sinhalese
21
Croatian
18
Fijian
17
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Italian243 · 0.8%
    23.3%
  2. 02
    Mandarin208 · 0.7%
    342.6%
  3. 03
    Punjabi139 · 0.5%
    31.1%
  4. 04
    Malay74 · 0.2%
    572.7%
  5. 05
    Arabic59 · 0.2%
    57.9%
  6. 06
    Tagalog54 · 0.2%
    50.0%
  7. 07
    Thai54 · 0.2%
    107.7%
  8. 08
    Filipino42 · 0.1%
    7.7%
  9. 09
    Cantonese33 · 0.1%
    10.0%
  10. 10
    German32 · 0.1%
    100.0%
  11. 11
    Dutch28 · 0.1%
    86.7%
  12. 12
    Malayalam27 · 0.1%
    35.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Malay
+572.7% 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
Moira
11.6%
Victoria
32.6%
Australia
27.3%

11.6% of Moira residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.6% for Victoria and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.