24.5% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Moonee Ponds · Suburb / Locality
Language in Moonee Ponds
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A little over one in five people in Moonee Ponds use a language other than English at home, which is slightly more than the national figure. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.5% of residents speak another language at home, with Italian, Greek, Mandarin and Cantonese being the most common after English. Around 3.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national average.
3.2% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Moonee Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21742/moonee-ponds/topic/language