32.7% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brooklyn · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brooklyn
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than ten percentage points more people speak a language other than English at home in Brooklyn than across Australia. This multicultural profile is highlighted by the 32.7% of residents who use another language, a figure that is well above the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 60.1% of residents speak only English, 5.4% speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure. Common non-English languages spoken here include Vietnamese, Italian, Cantonese and Arabic.
5.4% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Brooklyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20352/brooklyn/topic/language