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We are Muswellbrook

We are Muswellbrook.

Home to one of the larger Filipino-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 42 other language communities besides.

Our population
16,230
Speak another language
1,826
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+78.7%
43 languages are spoken at home in Muswellbrook. Filipino leads (49 speakers), with Punjabi close behind (49). 11 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 Filipino at home
49
Our largest community language, Filipino, is spoken by 0.3% of Muswellbrook residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Filipino
49 speakers

49 speakers, 0.3% of Muswellbrook. +58% since 2021.

Punjabi
49 speakers

49 speakers, 0.3% of Muswellbrook. +172% since 2021.

Tagalog
42 speakers

42 speakers, 0.3% of Muswellbrook. +20% since 2021.

The languages of Muswellbrook

43 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.

Filipino
49 · +58.1%
Punjabi
49 · +172.2%
Tagalog
42 · +20.0%
Thai
37 · +85.0%
Mandarin
30 · -21.1%
Malayalam
28 · -6.7%
Cantonese
26 · +30.0%
Nepali
24 · +242.9%
Afrikaans
21 · +162.5%
Spanish
21 · +250.0%
Tamil
19 · +216.7%
Urdu
14 · 0.0%
Shona
14 · -54.8%
Arabic
13 · +225.0%
Akan
11 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Filipino49 · 0.3%
    58.1%
  2. 02
    Punjabi49 · 0.3%
    172.2%
  3. 03
    Tagalog42 · 0.3%
    20.0%
  4. 04
    Thai37 · 0.2%
    85.0%
  5. 05
    Mandarin30 · 0.2%
    21.1%
  6. 06
    Malayalam28 · 0.2%
    6.7%
  7. 07
    Cantonese26 · 0.2%
    30.0%
  8. 08
    Nepali24 · 0.1%
    242.9%
  9. 09
    Afrikaans21 · 0.1%
    162.5%
  10. 10
    Spanish21 · 0.1%
    250.0%
  11. 11
    Tamil19 · 0.1%
    216.7%
  12. 12
    Urdu14 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Spanish
+250.0% 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
Muswellbrook
11.3%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

11.3% of Muswellbrook 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.