4.8% ▼ -9.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Thorpdale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Thorpdale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Thorpdale, where only 4.8% of people use another language at home. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.3% of residents speak only English, with Italian as the most common second language at 2.3%. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure well below the national average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Thorpdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22511/thorpdale/topic/language