3.7% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Romsey · Suburb / Locality
Language in Romsey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English has remained the dominant language in Romsey, where only 3.7% of people use another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a very linguistically uniform area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 92.2% of residents speak only English, which is far below the 27.6% seen across Victoria. While 0.3% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than in most similar areas—this is still well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -42.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Romsey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22193/romsey/topic/language