19.1% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gardenvale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gardenvale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating in Gardenvale, where 77.7% of people speak only this language at home. While a small number of residents use other languages, the area is much more English-speaking than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 19.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the Victorian and national figures. This includes small groups speaking Mandarin, Italian, Cantonese and Greek, though only 1.6% of residents speak little or no English.
1.6% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Gardenvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20965/gardenvale/topic/language