18.2% ▲ +40.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yallambie · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yallambie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Yallambie now speak a language other than English at home, though it remains far less common here than across the rest of the state. While the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, 78.5% of residents still use only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.2% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but well below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This diversity is reflected in the use of Mandarin, Italian, Cantonese and Greek, though only 1.9% of residents speak little or no English.
1.9% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Yallambie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22892/yallambie/topic/language