52.9% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.3%
- 2016: 57.0%
- 2021: 52.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunshine · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sunshine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of residents in Sunshine now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of Victoria and Australia, with 52.9% of people using another language daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken by 40.6% of the population, while Vietnamese is the most common second language at 17.2%. This diversity is reflected in the 12.4% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
12.4% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 12.4%
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 Sunshine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22395/sunshine/topic/language