16.3% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cheltenham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cheltenham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 6 percentage points separates Cheltenham from the national figure for people using another language at home. While 16.3% of residents speak a language other than English, this is much higher than most similar areas. The suburb remains predominantly English-speaking, with 81.2% of the population using only English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Greek is the most common non-English language at 3.2%, followed by Italian, Vietnamese and Punjabi. This diversity is reflected in the 2.1% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.1% ▼ -23.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Cheltenham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40248/cheltenham/topic/language