48.4% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.9%
- 2016: 49.9%
- 2021: 48.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Keilor Downs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Keilor Downs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Keilor Downs use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of Victoria and Australia, with 48.4% of people speaking a non-English language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 46.9% of residents, while others commonly speak Vietnamese, Greek, Arabic, and Italian. This diversity is reflected in the 9.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average.
9.1% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Keilor Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21315/keilor-downs/topic/language