24.6% ▼ -40.9%
Higher than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Higgins · Federal Electorate
Language in Higgins
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A wide variety of voices are heard across Higgins, where nearly a quarter of residents use a language other than English at home. While the area remains more linguistically diverse than the national average, the proportion of people speaking other languages has fallen sharply in recent years.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.6% of people use another language at home, which is higher than most areas, though this is 17 points lower than in 2011. Most of these residents speak English well, with only 3.0% speaking little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national average. The most common languages spoken alongside English are Mandarin (5.3%), Greek (3.3%), Cantonese (1.5%) and Hindi (0.9%).
3.0% ▼ -71.6%
Higher than 65% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Higgins [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED220/higgins/topic/language