15.7% ▲ +80.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Viveash · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Viveash now speak a language other than English at home than in previous years. While 15.7% of residents use another language, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 79.6% of the area, followed by smaller numbers of Italian and Tagalog speakers. About 1.4% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas but a little below the national figure.
15.7% ▲ +80.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.4% ▲ +263.9%
Higher than 80% 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 Viveash [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51494/viveash/topic/language