48.8% ▲ +23.6%
Higher than 95% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 45.9%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
3006, VIC · Postcode
Language in 3006, VIC
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of the people in postcode 3006 now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 9.3 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 48.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is spoken by 45.4% of people, Mandarin is the most common other language at 11.6%, followed by Hindi at 4.0%. Only 4.1% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that has fallen since 2016.
4.1% ▼ -26.2%
Higher than 87% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 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 3006, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3006/3006-vic/topic/language