22.1% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Norlane · Suburb / Locality
Language in Norlane
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Norlane use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this is about the same as the national figure, it sits well below the Victorian average. Roughly 22.1% of the population speaks a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.2% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is among the highest for areas of this type. While English is the main language for 66.7% of the community, Punjabi is the most common other language at 2.1%.
5.2% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.2%
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 Norlane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21960/norlane/topic/language