12.6% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Clifton Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Clifton Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of nearly 10 percentage points separates Clifton Hill from the national average in language diversity. While 12.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Most people here speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 84.6% of residents. While the 12.6% who speak another language is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Australian figure of 22.3%.
1.8% ▼ -21.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Clifton Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20574/clifton-hill/topic/language