13.9% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sailors Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sailors Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.5% of people in Sailors Hill. While most residents speak only English, the area has a surprisingly high proportion of people who struggle with the language compared to similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 13.9% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This is consistent with the 6.9% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% national average.
6.9% ▲ +87.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 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 Sailors Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22225/sailors-hill/topic/language