28.9% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gowanbrae · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gowanbrae
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 29% of Gowanbrae residents speak a language other than English at home, placing the area among the highest for linguistic diversity at this level. This is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While many people use a second language, very few struggle with English in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 68.3% of the community, followed by Italian, Hindi, Greek and Arabic. Despite the high use of other languages, the 2.1% who speak little or no English is a little below the Victorian and national figures.
2.1% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 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 Gowanbrae [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21079/gowanbrae/topic/language