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We are Wollondilly

We are Wollondilly.

Home to one of the larger Italian-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 65 other language communities besides.

Our population
53,525
Speak another language
5,133
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+28.6%
66 languages are spoken at home in Wollondilly. Italian leads (346 speakers), with Arabic close behind (329). 10 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
346
Our largest community language, Italian, is spoken by 0.6% of Wollondilly residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Italian
346 speakers

346 speakers, 0.6% of Wollondilly. -1% since 2021.

Arabic
329 speakers

329 speakers, 0.6% of Wollondilly. +29% since 2021.

Spanish
229 speakers

229 speakers, 0.4% of Wollondilly. +27% since 2021.

The languages of Wollondilly

66 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
346 · -1.1%
Arabic
329 · +29.0%
Spanish
229 · +27.2%
Maltese
170 · -19.4%
Croatian
150 · +17.2%
Greek
116 · -14.7%
Mandarin
111 · +20.7%
Serbian
96 · +62.7%
German
58 · -25.6%
Hindi
49 · +157.9%
Cantonese
49
Dutch
45
Thai
44
Tagalog
42
Turkish
42
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Italian346 · 0.6%
    1.1%
  2. 02
    Arabic329 · 0.6%
    29.0%
  3. 03
    Spanish229 · 0.4%
    27.2%
  4. 04
    Maltese170 · 0.3%
    19.4%
  5. 05
    Croatian150 · 0.3%
    17.2%
  6. 06
    Greek116 · 0.2%
    14.7%
  7. 07
    Mandarin111 · 0.2%
    20.7%
  8. 08
    Serbian96 · 0.2%
    62.7%
  9. 09
    German58 · 0.1%
    25.6%
  10. 10
    Hindi49 · 0.1%
    157.9%
  11. 11
    Cantonese49 · 0.1%
    9.3%
  12. 12
    Dutch45 · 0.1%
    9.8%
Fastest-growing among us
Tagalog
+200.0% 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
Wollondilly
9.6%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

9.6% of Wollondilly 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.