39.0% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 83% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Footscray · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Footscray
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher rates of multilingualism than most similar areas define Footscray, where 39% of people speak a language other than English at home. While this figure has fallen by 8.6 percentage points since 2011, the area remains far more diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Vietnamese is the most common second language at 10.5%, followed by Mandarin at 2.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.9% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%.
7.9% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 Footscray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213031348/footscray/topic/language