26.1% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Airport West · Suburb / Locality
Language in Airport West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in four people in Airport West use a language other than English at home. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the national figure, creating a linguistically diverse local community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 26.1% of residents speak another language, English is still used by 71.0% of the population. Italian is the most common second language at 8.5%, followed by Greek at 3.0%. Only 3.7% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Victorian and Australian figures.
3.7% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Airport West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20015/airport-west/topic/language