45.4% ▲ +34.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 45.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Vermont South · Suburb / Locality
Language in Vermont South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people speak a language other than English in Vermont South than in the rest of the country. Nearly half the population—45.4%—uses another language at home, which is 23 percentage points above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 50.6% of residents, but Mandarin is common at 18.4%, followed by Cantonese at 6.4%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.6% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
7.6% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 7.6%
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 Vermont South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22628/vermont-south/topic/language