3.1% ▲ +266.6%
Lower than 68% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
3700, VIC · Postcode
Language in 3700, VIC
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in postcode 3700 compared to the rest of the state. Only 3.1% of residents use another language at home, which is 24 percentage points below the Victorian figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language here, spoken exclusively by 91% of the population. While the number of people using other languages rose 2.3 percentage points since 2011, the share of those who speak little or no English remains very low at 0.3%.
0.3% ▲ +25.3%
Lower than 61% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 3700, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3700/3700-vic/topic/language