38.3% ▲ +45.6%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Box Hill South · Suburb / Locality
Language in Box Hill South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people speak a language other than English in Box Hill South than in the rest of the country. Around 38.3% of residents use another language at home, which is 16 percentage points above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 16.5%, followed by Cantonese at 4.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% seen across Australia.
7.5% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Box Hill South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20316/box-hill-south/topic/language