2.7% ▲ +168.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Milawa · Suburb / Locality
Language in Milawa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by almost everyone in Milawa, with 93.9% of residents using only this language at home. This is a far lower proportion of non-English speakers than the state or national figures. Very few people in the area struggle with English, with only 0.7% speaking little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, the 0.7% who speak little or no English is actually higher than most areas.
0.7% ▲ +33.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Milawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21681/milawa/topic/language