25.8% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.5%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Virginia · Suburb / Locality
Language in Virginia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Virginia compared to most similar areas. About 25.8% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area significantly more linguistically diverse than the state average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 67.3% of the population, while Vietnamese is the most common second language at 9.7%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages.
7.5% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Virginia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41507/virginia/topic/language