5.9% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chesney Vale · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Chesney Vale, with 89.2% of residents using it as their only language. Very few people here use a different language at home, making it much less linguistically diverse than most of Victoria and Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
While 5.9% of people use another language at home—which is higher than in most similar areas—this is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
5.9% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Chesney Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20545/chesney-vale/topic/language