58.5% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.6%
- 2016: 57.4%
- 2021: 58.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Deer Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Deer Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Deer Park speak a language other than English at home, making it a linguistically diverse area. This high level of diversity means that for 58.5% of the population, English is not the only language used in daily life.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 58.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Vietnamese (14.7%), Punjabi (2.5%), Tagalog (2.2%), and Arabic (2.2%), while 13.4% of people speak little or no English.
13.4% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 Deer Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20729/deer-park/topic/language