19.4% ▼ -22.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Northcote · Suburb / Locality
Language in Northcote
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 77.2% of people in Northcote. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains a diverse community where nearly one in five residents speaks another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 19.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Greek is the most common second language at 6.5%, and 3.6% of residents speak little or no English.
3.6% ▼ -16.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Northcote [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21971/northcote/topic/language