30.5% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 45.2%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Caulfield East · Suburb / Locality
Language in Caulfield East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English at home in Caulfield East than in most similar areas. About 30.5% of residents use another language, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than the typical Australian suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 66.6% of people, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 7.3%. Despite the high use of other languages, the 2.9% who speak little or no English is a little below the Victorian average.
2.9% ▼ -45.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Caulfield East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20522/caulfield-east/topic/language