14.8% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Malabar · Suburb / Locality
Language in Malabar
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Malabar speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 14.8% of residents use another language, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 58.8% of the area, though Greek, Cantonese and Mandarin are also spoken. Only 2.0% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
2.0% ▼ -7.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Malabar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12462/malabar/topic/language