60.2% —
Higher than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 58.3%
- 2021: 60.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burnside Heights · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Burnside Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 60% of people in Burnside Heights now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen since 2016. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria. It is a community where only 37.1% of residents speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 60.2% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Vietnamese, Punjabi, Hindi and Arabic, while 8.2% of people speak little or no English.
8.2% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Burnside Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213041462/burnside-heights/topic/language