14.1% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Melbourne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people in East Melbourne now speak a language other than English at home compared to 2011. While 14.1% of residents use another language, this remains well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.3% of the area, with Mandarin being the most common second language at 2.2%. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.7% speak little or no English, which is well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
0.7% ▼ -49.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 East Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20830/east-melbourne/topic/language