23.5% ▲ +15.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rosanna · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rosanna
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating in Rosanna, though nearly one in four residents uses another language at home. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than most similar suburbs, even though it sits slightly below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.5% of people speak a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. While English is used by 74.6% of residents, other common languages include Mandarin, Italian, Cantonese, and Greek. Around 3.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national average.
3.5% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Rosanna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22194/rosanna/topic/language