24.2% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Grangefields · Suburb / Locality
Language in Grangefields
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 25% of people in Grangefields speak a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This variety is seen in the mix of languages spoken, though the proportion of multi-lingual households remains well below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 24.2% of residents use another language at home, Punjabi (5.3%) and Vietnamese (3.0%) are the most common non-English tongues. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 6.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average.
6.8% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Grangefields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21087/grangefields/topic/language