44.4% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.3%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waterways · Suburb / Locality
Language in Waterways
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language variety has increased significantly in Waterways since 2011. Nearly 44.4% of people now speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The use of other languages is among the highest for similar areas, with Mandarin (9.0%) and Vietnamese (5.8%) being common. This trend is reflected in the 6.4% of residents who speak little or no English, which is a little above the Victorian figure.
6.4% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Waterways [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22720/waterways/topic/language