17.6% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Newport · Suburb / Locality
Language in Newport
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Newport now speak a language other than English at home than in previous censuses. While 17.6% of residents use another language, this is still well below the Victorian figure of 27.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly 79.2% of people speak only English, while Arabic and Greek are the most common other languages at 2.4% each. About 2.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the state average.
2.6% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Newport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21934/newport/topic/language