45.0% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 41.9%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Templestowe · Suburb / Locality
Language in Templestowe
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Templestowe use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the national average, with 45% of people speaking another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 51.6% of people speak only English, Mandarin is the most common second language at 13.1%, followed by Cantonese and Greek. This high diversity is reflected in the 6.9% who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average.
6.9% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Templestowe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22483/templestowe/topic/language