30.5% ▲ +289.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wemen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wemen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of residents in Wemen now speak a language other than English at home. About 30.5% of the population uses another language, a figure that sits well above the national average. This linguistic variety is most evident in the significant number of people who speak little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 60.9% of people, but Mandarin is common here at 15.6%. This helps explain why 15.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is far above the 4.4% seen across Victoria.
15.6% ▲ +246.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 15.6%
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 Wemen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22744/wemen/topic/language