24.8% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Collingwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Collingwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in four people in Collingwood speak another language at home, marking a notable shift in the area's linguistic makeup since 2011. While this is a little below the Victorian average, it remains much higher than most similar areas across the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Greek being the most common. This diversity is reflected in the 5.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is among the highest for similar areas.
5.5% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Collingwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20616/collingwood/topic/language