Cornishtown · Suburb / Locality

Language in Cornishtown

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%.

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📍 Cornishtown, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

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.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 4.3%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Cornishtown, English only is the majority at 100%.

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 Cornishtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20643/cornishtown/topic/language