39.0% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Footscray · Suburb / Locality
Language in Footscray
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of Footscray residents speak only English, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than most of the country. About 39% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Vietnamese is the most common non-English language at 10.5%, followed by Mandarin at 2.8%. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 7.9% of people speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% seen across Australia.
7.9% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 Footscray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20935/footscray/topic/language