30.5% ▼ -13.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Croydon · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Croydon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 30% of people in West Croydon speak another language at home, which is far above the state and national figures. This high level of linguistic diversity is reflected in the variety of languages spoken across the neighbourhood.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 67.1% of residents, followed by Greek at 6.3%, Italian at 4.1%, and Vietnamese at 3.2%. About 5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the national average.
5.0% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 West Croydon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41566/west-croydon/topic/language