61.0% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.3%
- 2016: 60.1%
- 2021: 61.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Broadmeadows · Suburb / Locality
Language in Broadmeadows
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 61% of people in Broadmeadows now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common non-English language at 17.9%, while only 26.7% of residents speak only English. This diversity is reflected in the 13.3% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
13.3% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 13.3%
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 Broadmeadows [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20346/broadmeadows/topic/language