29.7% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Westmeadows · Suburb / Locality
Language in Westmeadows
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of people in Westmeadows speak a language other than English at home, a figure well above the Australian average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places, with a significant variety of languages spoken in the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 64.5% of residents speak only English, Arabic is the most common second language at 5.5%, followed by Italian and Greek. About 4.4% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the figure for Victoria.
4.4% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Westmeadows [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22761/westmeadows/topic/language