28.7% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boroondara · Council (LGA)
Language in Boroondara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than five percentage points more people speak a language other than English at home in Boroondara than they did in 2011. Today, 28.7% of residents use another language, a figure that is well above the national average. This reflects a growing trend toward linguistic diversity across the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 10.4%, followed by Cantonese, Greek and Italian. While 28.7% of people use another language at home, the proportion who speak little or no English has barely changed since 2016, staying steady at 4.1%.
4.1% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 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 Boroondara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21110/boroondara/topic/language