31.8% ▲ +21.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eagle Vale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eagle Vale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 31% of people in Eagle Vale now use a language other than English at home, a figure that is well above the national average. This shift makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places. While English remains the main language, a growing variety of other tongues are spoken in local households.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 31.8% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the 22.3% national figure. While this is among the highest rates for similar areas, only 4.1% of people speak little or no English, a rate about the same as the state and national averages. English is spoken by 62.1% of the population, followed by Arabic at 5.6%, Hindi at 2.0%, Tagalog at 1.8%, and Vietnamese at 0.9%.
4.1% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Eagle Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11344/eagle-vale/topic/language