31.6% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rowville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rowville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Rowville now speak a language other than English at home. This is a diverse community where 31.6% of residents use a second language, a figure well above the Australian average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 65.9% of residents, but Mandarin is the most common second language at 6.7%. While 31.6% of people use another language at home, about 4.4% speak little or no English, which is similar to the Victorian average.
4.4% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Rowville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22207/rowville/topic/language