32.0% ▼ -24.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Footscray · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Footscray
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 32% of people in West Footscray speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the typical Australian suburb, with a significant number of residents who struggle with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 62.2% of the community speaks only English, the area is well above the national figure for multi-lingual homes. Vietnamese is the most common second language at 8.2%, and 6.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is well above the Australian average.
6.6% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 West Footscray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22756/west-footscray/topic/language