24.6% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
South Yarra · Suburb / Locality
Language in South Yarra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A slightly higher proportion of people speak a language other than English in South Yarra compared to the national figure. While 24.6% of residents use another language at home, this is much higher than most other similar areas. It reflects a diverse local community where nearly a quarter of people use a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 5.3%, followed by Cantonese, Greek and Italian. Around 2.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most other areas.
2.8% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 South Yarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22314/south-yarra/topic/language