19.6% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Altona · Suburb / Locality
Language in Altona
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 20% of people in Altona use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this is well below the Victorian average, the community remains diverse with several different languages spoken across the suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.8% of residents, though 19.6% use another tongue, including Italian, Greek, Mandarin and Vietnamese. About 2.2% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average but much higher than in most other areas.
2.2% ▼ -13.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Altona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20035/altona/topic/language