10.5% ▲ +22.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Whitfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Whitfield, where only 10.5% of people use another language at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains far below the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (84.1%), though some use Italian (2.7%) or Greek (1.8%) at home. Very few people here speak little or no English (2.3%), a figure that is a little below the Australian and Victorian averages.
2.3% ▲ +62.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Whitfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22772/whitfield/topic/language