48.9% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 95% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 48.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
3172, VIC · Postcode
Language in 3172, VIC
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost half of the people in postcode 3172 now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 4.9 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 48.9% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the 15% who speak little or no English, a rate far above the Victorian average of 4.4%. While English is the most common language at 47.4%, Vietnamese is spoken by 14.6% of the population, followed by Cantonese, Greek, and Mandarin.
15.0% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 3172, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3172/3172-vic/topic/language