34.5% ▲ +105.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brookfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brookfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of residents in Brookfield use a language other than English at home, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas. This linguistic diversity is far above the national figure, though English remains the most common language spoken.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 34.5% of people speak another language at home, which is well above the Victorian figure of 27.6%. While Punjabi is the most common non-English language at 6.9%, only 4.2% of residents speak little or no English.
4.2% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20351/brookfield/topic/language