3.6% ▼ -39.1%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brunswick · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brunswick
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.6% of people in Brunswick speak a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a place where English is the overwhelming primary language for almost every resident.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.3% of the population, with Italian being the next most common language at 2.3%. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Brunswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50197/brunswick/topic/language