10.5% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boolite · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for the vast majority of people in Boolite. While 10.5% of residents use another language at home, this is much higher than most similar areas. Despite this, the community is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.5% of people in Boolite use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. English is spoken exclusively by 86.8% of residents, and there are no people who speak little or no English.
10.5% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Boolite [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20291/boolite/topic/language