22.8% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brunswick East · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brunswick East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 73.3% of people in Brunswick East. While this is the most common language, over a fifth of the population uses another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.8% of residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure that is about the same as the national average. Italian is the most common non-English language at 4.4%, followed by Greek at 2.8%. Meanwhile, 2.5% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most areas.
2.5% ▼ -31.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Brunswick East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20362/brunswick-east/topic/language