42.2% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.0%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hadfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hadfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 42% of people in Hadfield speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind, where nearly half the population uses a second language daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common non-English language at 12.2%, followed by Italian at 7.8% and Greek at 3.5%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.0% of residents who speak little or no English, which is higher than the typical Victorian figure.
6.0% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.0%
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 Hadfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21124/hadfield/topic/language