28.7% ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 73% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Aston · Federal Electorate
Language in Aston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Aston have spoken a language other than English at home since 2011, with the figure rising by 3.1 percentage points to 28.7%. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than most other similar places. Most residents still only use English, but Mandarin and Cantonese are the most common second languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 28.7% of people use another language at home, which is well above the own national figure of 22.3%. While 4.3% of residents speak little or no English, this is about the same as the Victorian average.
4.3% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Aston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED201/aston/topic/language