20.0% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St Kilda · Suburb / Locality
Language in St Kilda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
One in five people in St Kilda speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more diverse than most similar places, though the rate is still a little below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 71.9% of residents, with smaller groups speaking Mandarin, Italian, Greek and Hindi. Only 1.7% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national average but much higher than most similar areas.
1.7% ▼ -16.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 St Kilda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22343/st-kilda/topic/language