10.3% ▲ +33.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whittington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Whittington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Whittington, where 80.1% of people use only this language at home. While more residents here speak another language compared to similar areas, the total is still far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Only 1.3% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the Victorian average.
1.3% ▲ +68.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Whittington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22774/whittington/topic/language