15.6% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Smokeytown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Smokeytown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 87.5% of people in Smokeytown. While this is a high proportion, the area has a much higher share of people speaking other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Hindi being the most common at 9.4%. Despite this, no one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Smokeytown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22296/smokeytown/topic/language