24.2% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hawthorn East · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hawthorn East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in four people in Hawthorn East speak another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. While this is a little above the national figure, it remains well below the Victorian average. English is the primary language for 72.5% of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 7.2%, followed by Greek at 2.0%. About 2.8% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.8% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Hawthorn East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21153/hawthorn-east/topic/language