30.1% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brookvale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brookvale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 30% of Brookvale residents now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has grown since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the national average. While most people speak English, there is a strong presence of several different global languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 30.1% of people here use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Australian figure of 22.3%. While English is the main language for 65.2% of residents, Italian (2.7%) and Mandarin (2.4%) are common; meanwhile, 4.2% of the population speak little or no English.
4.2% ▼ -24.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Brookvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10598/brookvale/topic/language