46.1% ▲ +21.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 44.6%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Westminster · Suburb / Locality
Language in Westminster
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Westminster speak a language other than English at home, placing it among the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 46.1% of people who use another language, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 46.5% of the population, while other common languages include Punjabi, Vietnamese, Arabic and Italian. Around 7.0% of residents speak little or no English, which is well above the 3.4% recorded across Australia.
7.0% ▼ -19.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Westminster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51588/westminster/topic/language