56.7% —
Higher than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 54.8%
- 2021: 56.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kororoit (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Kororoit (Western Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have started speaking a language other than English at home in Kororoit, which rose to 56.7% in 2021. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia. While English is the most common language, over half the population uses a different tongue at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
A huge 56.7% of people here use another language at home, a figure far above the national average of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the common languages spoken, including Vietnamese (13%), Punjabi (4.7%), Tagalog (2.5%) and Arabic (2.3%), while 10.5% of residents speak little or no English.
10.5% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Kororoit (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24207/kororoit/topic/language