8.3% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hiamdale · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Hiamdale compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 8.3% of Hiamdale residents do. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 88.9% of residents. No one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the Victoria figure of 4.4%.
8.3% —
Higher than 73% 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 Hiamdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21182/hiamdale/topic/language