3.2% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Newtown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone living in Newtown. Very few people here use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.2% of residents speak another language at home, with Italian being the most common after English at 1.6%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, it is far below the Victorian average of 27.6%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21937/newtown/topic/language