28.6% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 72% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maribyrnong · Federal Electorate
Language in Maribyrnong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of people in Maribyrnong speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than most other regions, though the proportion has dipped slightly over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 28.6% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While Italian, Greek, Vietnamese and Arabic are common, the number of people who speak little or no English has fallen to 4.1%.
4.1% ▼ -38.0%
Higher than 74% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Maribyrnong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED231/maribyrnong/topic/language