21.6% ▼ -24.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Seddon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Seddon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing variety of languages are spoken in Seddon, where about 21.6% of people now use a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.6% of residents, though Vietnamese is the most common other language at 4.9%. About 5.0% of people speak little or no English, which is among the highest levels seen in similar areas.
5.0% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Seddon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22256/seddon/topic/language