33.8% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 89% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 40.8%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
3072, VIC · Postcode
Language in 3072, VIC
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than three in ten people in postcode 3072 use a language other than English at home, making it far more linguistically diverse than most Australian areas. While this is a high figure, the proportion of people speaking other languages has fallen by 7 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 33.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Victorian figure of 27.6%. The most common non-English languages are Greek (5.7%), Italian (4.6%), and Mandarin (3.5%), while 6.7% of people speak little or no English.
6.7% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 91% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 3072, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3072/3072-vic/topic/language