6.3% ▲ +32.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Upwey · Suburb / Locality
Language in Upwey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people in Upwey, where only 6.3% of residents use another tongue at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages. Daily life here is conducted almost entirely in English, with very few residents requiring translation services.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 91.2% of people speak only English, the 6.3% who use another language at home is higher than in most similar areas. This is still far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%, and very few people—just 0.3%—speak little or no English.
0.3% ▼ -39.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Upwey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22620/upwey/topic/language