36.8% ▲ +30.7%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nunawading · Suburb / Locality
Language in Nunawading
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of people in Nunawading use a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This makes the suburb far more linguistically diverse than the Australian average, with 36.8% of residents speaking a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 10.9%, followed by Cantonese at 5.3%. Because of this diversity, 6.9% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average of 3.4%.
6.9% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Nunawading [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21985/nunawading/topic/language