18.2% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Heathcote South · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is far more common in Heathcote South than in the rest of the state. While 18.2% of people use a language other than English at home, this is well below the Victorian average of 27.6%. This suggests a community with very high English proficiency.
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English, representing 63.6% of the population. This means no one in the area speaks little or no English, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
18.2% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Heathcote South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21162/heathcote-south/topic/language