14.7% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chelsea · Suburb / Locality
Language in Chelsea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 80.9% of people in Chelsea. While more people here use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas, this figure is still well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.7% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Greek, Mandarin, and Italian being the most common. Just 1.5% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
1.5% ▼ -31.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Chelsea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20537/chelsea/topic/language