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We are Singleton

We are Singleton.

Home to one of the larger Tagalog-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 41 other language communities besides.

Our population
24,348
Speak another language
2,122
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+79.7%
42 languages are spoken at home in Singleton. Tagalog leads (93 speakers), with Afrikaans close behind (75). 9 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 Tagalog at home
93
Our largest community language, Tagalog, is spoken by 0.4% of Singleton residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Tagalog
93 speakers

93 speakers, 0.4% of Singleton. +191% since 2021.

Afrikaans
75 speakers

75 speakers, 0.3% of Singleton. +4% since 2021.

Filipino
45 speakers

45 speakers, 0.2% of Singleton. +7% since 2021.

The languages of Singleton

42 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.

Tagalog
93 · +190.6%
Afrikaans
75 · +4.2%
Filipino
45 · +7.1%
Vietnamese
42 · +55.6%
Thai
39 · +178.6%
Mandarin
33 · -21.4%
Cantonese
22 · -29.0%
Spanish
20 · -28.6%
Italian
19 · -17.4%
Russian
17 · +325.0%
Hindi
17 · +54.5%
Fijian
15 · 0.0%
Punjabi
14 · +366.7%
Bengali
13 · +225.0%
Sinhalese
12 · +9.1%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Tagalog93 · 0.4%
    190.6%
  2. 02
    Afrikaans75 · 0.3%
    4.2%
  3. 03
    Filipino45 · 0.2%
    7.1%
  4. 04
    Vietnamese42 · 0.2%
    55.6%
  5. 05
    Thai39 · 0.2%
    178.6%
  6. 06
    Mandarin33 · 0.1%
    21.4%
  7. 07
    Cantonese22 · 0.1%
    29.0%
  8. 08
    Spanish20 · 0.1%
    28.6%
  9. 09
    Italian19 · 0.1%
    17.4%
  10. 10
    Russian17 · 0.1%
    325.0%
  11. 11
    Hindi17 · 0.1%
    54.5%
  12. 12
    Fijian15 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Punjabi
+366.7% 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
Singleton
8.7%
New South Wales
31.7%
Australia
27.2%

8.7% of Singleton residents speak a language other than English at home, against 31.7% for New South Wales and 27.2% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.