1.3% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maindample · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Maindample speaks only English at home, with 96.7% of residents using it exclusively. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Despite this, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure.
1.3% —
Lower than 64% 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 Maindample [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21579/maindample/topic/language