58.9% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.7%
- 2016: 61.0%
- 2021: 58.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Delahey · Suburb / Locality
Language in Delahey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in Delahey now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has grown since 2011. This creates a diverse community where 58.9% of people use a non-English language, which is far above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 35.8% of the population, while Vietnamese is the most common other language at 14%. This high level of linguistic diversity is reflected in the 13.5% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure far above the Victorian average.
13.5% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
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 Delahey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20731/delahey/topic/language