43.3% ▲ +30.7%
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Box Hill North · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Box Hill North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than four in ten people in Box Hill North speak a language other than English at home, making it a linguistically diverse area. This shift is clear in the data, as the proportion of people using another language has risen by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 19.7%, followed by Cantonese at 6.6%. This diversity is reflected in the 10.3% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average of 3.4%.
10.3% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
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 Box Hill North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/207031164/box-hill-north/topic/language