50.1% —
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Reservoir - North West · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Reservoir - North West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of the people in Reservoir - North West use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of Victoria, with 50.1% of residents speaking a non-English language. It is a multilingual community where nearly one in five people speak Italian.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Italian is the most common second language at 19%, followed by Arabic at 7.2% and Greek at 5.1%. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 9.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average of 3.4%.
9.5% —
Higher than 91% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
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 Reservoir - North West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/209021524/reservoir-north-west/topic/language