51.3% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.0%
- 2016: 48.4%
- 2021: 51.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mulgrave · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mulgrave
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Mulgrave speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia. It is a multicultural hub where a wide variety of languages are used daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 51.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This high diversity is reflected in the common use of Mandarin, Greek, Vietnamese and Cantonese, while 7.2% of people speak little or no English.
7.2% ▼ -5.8%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Mulgrave [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21827/mulgrave/topic/language