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Tootgarook · Suburb / Locality

Language in Tootgarook

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language for daily life in Tootgarook, where 86.3% of people speak only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the Victorian and national averages.

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📍 Tootgarook, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

While 7.8% of residents use another language at home—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Most of these residents speak Italian or Greek, and very few people here, just 0.7%, speak little or no English.

People using another language at home

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7.8% ▼ -3.1%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.7% ▼ -49.1%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Tootgarook, English only is the majority at 95%; Italian is next at 3%.

English only 86.3% Italian 2.7% Greek 1.5% Mandarin 0.3% Cantonese 0.1% Punjabi 0.1%

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 Tootgarook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22550/tootgarook/topic/language