37.0% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 50.6%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Travancore · Suburb / Locality
Language in Travancore
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Diverse voices fill the streets of Travancore, where 37% of people speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and among the highest rates for similar areas, making it a linguistically diverse pocket of Melbourne.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 57.1% of residents, while others speak Mandarin, Hindi, Cantonese, or Italian. Despite the high use of other languages, only 3.1% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure.
3.1% ▼ -55.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Travancore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22572/travancore/topic/language