29.5% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 73% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kooyong · Federal Electorate
Language in Kooyong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of people in Kooyong speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure. This multilingual character has grown since 2011, though most residents still use English as their primary language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 10.9%, followed by Cantonese at 3.3%. While 29.5% of the area uses another language at home, the proportion of people who speak little or no English has fallen to 4.2%.
4.2% ▼ -27.1%
Higher than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Kooyong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED226/kooyong/topic/language