46.3% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 46.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Manningham · Council (LGA)
Language in Manningham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just over half of Manningham residents speak only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state. Nearly 46% of people use another language, a figure that has risen by 7.5 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin (13.9%) and Cantonese (8.5%) are the most common non-English languages, followed by Greek and Italian. This diversity is reflected in the 7.8% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
7.8% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 7.8%
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 Manningham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA24210/manningham/topic/language