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We are Mount Alexander

We are Mount Alexander.

Home to one of the larger German-speaking communities in Victoria, and 37 other language communities besides.

Our population
20,111
Speak another language
2,468
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+68.7%
38 languages are spoken at home in Mount Alexander. German leads (52 speakers), with Spanish close behind (48). 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
52
Our largest community language, German, is spoken by 0.3% of Mount Alexander residents at home.
What makes our community ours
German
52 speakers

52 speakers, 0.3% of Mount Alexander. -4% since 2021.

Spanish
48 speakers

48 speakers, 0.2% of Mount Alexander. +85% since 2021.

French
45 speakers

45 speakers, 0.2% of Mount Alexander. +50% since 2021.

The languages of Mount Alexander

38 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
52 · -3.7%
Spanish
48 · +84.6%
French
45 · +50.0%
Greek
43 · +30.3%
Dutch
29 · +61.1%
Italian
25 · -10.7%
Dinka
24 · +60.0%
Indonesian
22 · +214.3%
Japanese
21 · -16.0%
Auslan
19 · +533.3%
Arabic
14 · +180.0%
Punjabi
13 · -13.3%
Danish
11 · +57.1%
Thai
11 · +22.2%
Hungarian
10 · +66.7%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    German52 · 0.3%
    3.7%
  2. 02
    Spanish48 · 0.2%
    84.6%
  3. 03
    French45 · 0.2%
    50.0%
  4. 04
    Greek43 · 0.2%
    30.3%
  5. 05
    Dutch29 · 0.1%
    61.1%
  6. 06
    Italian25 · 0.1%
    10.7%
  7. 07
    Dinka24 · 0.1%
    60.0%
  8. 08
    Indonesian22 · 0.1%
    214.3%
  9. 09
    Japanese21 · 0.1%
    16.0%
  10. 10
    Auslan19 · 0.1%
    533.3%
  11. 11
    Arabic14 · 0.1%
    180.0%
  12. 12
    Punjabi13 · 0.1%
    13.3%
Fastest-growing among us
Auslan
+533.3% 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
Mount Alexander
12.3%
Victoria
32.6%
Australia
27.3%

12.3% of Mount Alexander residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.6% for Victoria and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.