4.8% ▲ +62.6%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Violet Town · Suburb / Locality
Language in Violet Town
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Violet Town compared to the state or national average. Only 4.8% of residents use another language at home, making the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Victoria.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 84.9% of residents. While 4.8% use another language at home—a figure higher than most similar areas—it remains far below the national average of 22.3%. Only 1.2% of people speak little or no English.
1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Violet Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22635/violet-town/topic/language