3.9% —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Northwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Northwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.2% of residents in Northwood. This area is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with only 3.9% of people using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is dominant, the 3.9% who speak another language is around the middle for similar areas. Notably, no one in Northwood reported speaking little or no English, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
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 Northwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21972/northwood/topic/language