23.7% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Essendon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Essendon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 72.8% of people in Essendon, though nearly a quarter of the population speaks another language at home. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than most similar places, even though it sits below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.7% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the national figure. Italian is the most common second language at 4.3%, while 2.1% of people speak little or no English, a rate much higher than most similar areas.
2.1% ▼ -15.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Essendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20885/essendon/topic/language