25.7% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kaleen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kaleen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Kaleen now speak a language other than English at home than in previous years. About 25.7% of residents use another language, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places across the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 71.0% of residents, while Mandarin (4.6%), Vietnamese (1.9%), and Greek (1.3%) are the most common other tongues. Around 3.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most other areas.
3.5% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Kaleen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80081/kaleen/topic/language