33.5% ▲ +44.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Deepdene · Suburb / Locality
Language in Deepdene
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than three out of ten people in Deepdene now use a language other than English at home. This proportion is far above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas. While English remains the main language, Mandarin is a very common second language here.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 33.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the Victorian average. This diversity is reflected in the 6.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the national average. English is used by 63.2% of the population, followed by Mandarin at 19.4% and Cantonese at 2.8%.
6.1% ▼ 0.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.1%
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 Deepdene [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20728/deepdene/topic/language