10.5% ▲ +32.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eltham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eltham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.8% of people in Eltham. While this is far below the state and national figures for language diversity, it is still much higher than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.5% of residents use another language at home, though only 0.9% speak little or no English. Aside from English, the most common languages are Mandarin at 1.6%, Italian at 1.0%, and Greek at 0.9%.
0.9% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Eltham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20865/eltham/topic/language