7.5% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yielima · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Yielima, where 88.2% of people speak it exclusively at home. This small community is far less linguistically diverse than the Victorian and national averages, though it has a slightly higher proportion of people using another language at home than most similar areas.
English and the largest community languages.
While 7.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This trend is reflected in the English proficiency of the area, where 0.0% of people speak little or no English.
7.5% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Yielima [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22933/yielima/topic/language