58.1% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.9%
- 2016: 63.2%
- 2021: 58.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fawkner · Suburb / Locality
Language in Fawkner
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of Fawkner residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region, where 58.1% of people use another language daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Italian and Arabic are the most common non-English languages, spoken by 10.1% and 8.8% of people. Because so many residents use other languages, 9.5% speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% seen across Australia.
9.5% ▼ -18.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 Fawkner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20909/fawkner/topic/language