2.4% ▲ +187.7%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Devenish · Suburb / Locality
Language in Devenish
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 78.8% of people in Devenish. This makes it a very linguistically uniform place, with far fewer people using other languages at home compared to the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is ranked higher than most similar areas for the proportion of people who speak little or no English, though this still sits well below the state average at 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 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.
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 Devenish [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20746/devenish/topic/language