6.0% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whittlesea · Suburb / Locality
Language in Whittlesea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Whittlesea, though more people are now using other languages at home than in most similar areas. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, 6% of residents speak a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.1% of people speak only English, with Italian being the most common other language at 1.6%. Only 0.7% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the Victoria figure of 4.4%.
0.7% ▲ +22.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Whittlesea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22775/whittlesea/topic/language