25.2% ▼ -26.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Thornbury · Suburb / Locality
Language in Thornbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Thornbury have shifted to speaking a language other than English at home since 2011. Now, about one in four residents uses another language, with Greek and Italian remaining the most common non-English tongues.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.2% of people here use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most areas. While English is spoken by 71.7%, the community is diverse with 8% speaking Greek and 4.2% speaking Italian, and 5% of residents speak little or no English.
5.0% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Thornbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22508/thornbury/topic/language