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Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate

Language in Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan)

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

More than four in ten residents now speak a language other than English at home in Forest Hill, a figure that has risen by 5.1 percentage points since 2016. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the national average, with 45.2% of people using a second language.

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📍 Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan), State Electorate

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 16.7%, followed by Cantonese at 6.3%. About 8.2% of people speak little or no English, which is well above the Victorian figure of 4.4%.

People using another language at home

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45.2% —

Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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8.2% ▲ +9.3%

Higher than 90% of state electorate 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.

Language used at home

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In Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan), English only is the majority at 62%; Mandarin is next at 20%.

English only 51.8% Mandarin 16.7% Cantonese 6.3% Greek 3.3% Hindi 1.6% Vietnamese 1.5% Italian 1.1% Punjabi 0.6% Arabic 0.4% Tagalog 0.3%

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 Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23101/forest-hill/topic/language