4.3% ▼ -42.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Markwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Markwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90% of people in Markwood, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 4.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 4.3% of people use another language at home—which is around the middle for similar areas—this is far below the 27.6% seen across Victoria. Aside from English, Italian is the most common language at 2.2%, and no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Markwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21606/markwood/topic/language