55 per cent.
Nearly 55 in every 100 Wyndham residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Victoria.
Punjabi is spoken by 20,835 of our residents at home, 7.2% of the council.
Hindi is spoken by 13,958 of our residents at home, 4.8% of the council.
Mandarin is spoken by 10,507 of our residents at home, 3.6% of the council.
150 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.
We share this portrait because Wyndham is, genuinely, not like an "average" council. Services designed for the median Victoria resident arrive here in the wrong language. This Atlas exists so nobody writing policy about us, federal, state, corporate or media, can claim they did not know.
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
55.4% of Wyndham residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.6% for Victoria and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.