19.7% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Spotswood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Spotswood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 76.6% of people in Spotswood. While most residents speak only English, nearly one in five people here use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 19.7% of people use a language other than English at home, though this is well below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, and Arabic, while 2.5% of residents speak little or no English.
2.5% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Spotswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22319/spotswood/topic/language