65.6% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.0%
- 2016: 68.4%
- 2021: 65.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Thomastown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Thomastown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 29.5% of people in Thomastown speak English only at home, making it an exceptionally multilingual area. A huge 65.6% of residents use another language, which is far above the national figure. This high level of diversity is reflected in the many different languages spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly two-thirds of the population use a language other than English, with Arabic, Vietnamese, Italian, and Greek being the most common. This is far above the state average, and it helps explain why 15.3% of people speak little or no English—a figure much higher than the Australian average of 3.4%.
15.3% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 15.3%
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 Thomastown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22504/thomastown/topic/language