22.7% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ashburton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ashburton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 74.1% of residents in Ashburton. While this is much higher than most similar areas, the suburb remains about the same as the national average in terms of overall linguistic diversity.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.7% of people use a language other than English at home, with Mandarin being the most common at 7.5%. A small group of residents—3.3%—speak little or no English, which is a little below the Victorian figure.
3.3% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Ashburton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20077/ashburton/topic/language