48.8% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hume · Council (LGA)
Language in Hume
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all people in Hume speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in the region, with 48.8% of residents using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic (9.3%) and Punjabi (5.2%) are the most common non-English languages. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 8.3% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
8.3% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.3%
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 Hume [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA23270/hume/topic/language