40.5% ▲ +33.8%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitehorse · Council (LGA)
Language in Whitehorse
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A 10 percentage point rise since 2011 means more people in Whitehorse now speak a language other than English at home. This figure has climbed to 40.5%, making the area far more linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 16.2%, while 8.2% of residents speak little or no English. This last figure is well above the national level of 3.4% and has remained steady since 2016.
8.2% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Whitehorse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26980/whitehorse/topic/language