45.2% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 93% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Melbourne - South East · Region (SA4)
Language in Melbourne - South East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Melbourne - South East speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia, with this trend continuing to grow over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 45.2% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is only spoken by 49.7% of the population, Mandarin is the next most common language at 5.3%, followed by Punjabi and Vietnamese. This high diversity is mirrored by the 8.0% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above both the state and national levels.
8.0% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 93% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.0%
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 Melbourne - South East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/212/melbourne-south-east/topic/language