20.0% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yarraville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yarraville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have shifted towards using English exclusively in Yarraville since the last census. While English is the main language for 76.3% of the area, about one in five residents still speaks another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.0% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but well below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Greek is the most common non-English language at 4.2%, while 3.6% of the population speaks little or no English.
3.6% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Yarraville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22917/yarraville/topic/language