15.2% ▼ -65.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dandenong South · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dandenong South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 15.2% of people in Dandenong South speak a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. This reflects a diverse but small proportion of the local population using non-English languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 66.4% of residents, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 2.4%. Only 2.4% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas but still a little below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
2.4% ▲ —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Dandenong South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20709/dandenong-south/topic/language