3.5% ▲ +245.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Colbinabbin · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 83.5% of people in Colbinabbin, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 3.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using another language at home is far below the national figure of 22.3%. However, the 1.1% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
3.5% ▲ +245.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.1% ▲ —
Higher than 76% 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 Colbinabbin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20611/colbinabbin/topic/language