8.9% ▲ +150.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
White Hills · Suburb / Locality
Language in White Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Most people in White Hills use English as their only language at home, making it a very homogenous area for daily life. While nearly 9% of residents speak another language, this is still far below the Victorian and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This includes small numbers of Mandarin and Arabic speakers, though only 1.2% of the population speak little or no English.
1.2% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 White Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22769/white-hills/topic/language