3.7% ▲ +58.4%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hamilton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hamilton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Hamilton (Vic.), where only 3.7% of people use another language at home. This is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. The area is very linguistically uniform, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.8% of people speak only English at home, and only 0.4% speak little or no English. While this last figure is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national and state averages.
0.4% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Hamilton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21129/hamilton/topic/language