16.2% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Malvern · Suburb / Locality
Language in Malvern
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Malvern, where 80.4% of people use it as their only language at home. While this is far below the Victorian average for multilingualism, the area still sees a diverse mix of languages in daily life.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 16.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. This includes Mandarin, Greek, and Cantonese, though only 1.9% of residents speak little or no English.
1.9% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Malvern [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21586/malvern/topic/language