4.5% ▲ +20.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Malmsbury · Suburb / Locality
Language in Malmsbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Malmsbury, where only 4.5% of residents speak another language at home. This figure is far below the national average of 22.3% and the Victorian figure of 27.6%. The area is overwhelmingly English-speaking, with nearly 90% using only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. While very few speak another language, the 0.4% who speak little or no English is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.4% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Malmsbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21585/malmsbury/topic/language