10.6% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Edithvale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Edithvale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people in Edithvale, where 86.5% of residents speak only this language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.6% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Only 1.0% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the state average.
1.0% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Edithvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20848/edithvale/topic/language