19.4% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Prahran · Suburb / Locality
Language in Prahran
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in five residents in Prahran speaks a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Victorian average. English is the dominant language, spoken by 75.5% of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 19.4% of people use another language at home, though the proportion of those who speak little or no English is quite low at 2.9%. Greek is the most common non-English language at 4.9%, followed by Mandarin at 1.9%.
2.9% ▼ -21.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Prahran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22118/prahran/topic/language