42.4% ▼ -17.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.5%
- 2016: 48.3%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Altona North · Suburb / Locality
Language in Altona North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Altona North compared to the rest of the country. Over 42% of residents use another language at home, which is 20 percentage points above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in its class.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 51.5% of people speak only English, Arabic is the most common other language at 11.2%. This diversity is reflected in the 8.2% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above both the Victorian and national averages.
8.2% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20037/altona-north/topic/language