4.3% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cornishtown · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as similar areas, Cornishtown is a place where very few people use a language other than English at home. Only 4.3% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 88.3% of the population. While this is far below the Victorian average of 27.6% for other languages, no one in the area speaks little or no English.
4.3% —
Higher than 56% 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 Cornishtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20643/cornishtown/topic/language