41.8% ▲ +39.8%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Casey · Council (LGA)
Language in Casey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people use a language other than English at home in Casey than across the rest of the country. Roughly 41.8% of residents speak a different language, a figure that has jumped by 12 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 53.1% of people, Punjabi (4.6%), Mandarin (2.2%), Hindi (1.8%) and Arabic (1.4%) are also common. About 6.0% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure of 3.4%.
6.0% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 6.0%
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 Casey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21610/casey/topic/language