52.8% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 96% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 45.3%
- 2016: 49.1%
- 2021: 52.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Manningham - West · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Manningham - West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Manningham - West now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 7.5 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 52.8% of residents speak another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the common languages spoken, such as Mandarin (16.2%), Cantonese (9.7%), Greek (6.5%) and Italian (3.4%). Alongside this, 9.1% of people speak little or no English, a rate well above the Victoria average of 4.4%.
9.1% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 93% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Manningham - West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20702/manningham-west/topic/language