9.6% ▲ +32.3%
Higher than 65% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
3429, VIC · Postcode
Language in 3429, VIC
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in postcode 3429, where 86.5% of people speak only English at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, the proportion of people using another language remains far below the Victorian and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure that rose 2.3 percentage points since 2011. Very few people struggle with English here, with only 0.9% speaking little or no English, which is well below the state average.
0.9% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 62% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 3429, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3429/3429-vic/topic/language