56.1% —
Higher than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 56.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in Mount Waverley use a language other than English at home, placing the area among the highest for diversity at this level. This trend has grown recently, with the proportion of people speaking another language rising to 56.1%. It is a linguistically diverse community where English is the primary language for only 40.3% of people.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 20.9%, followed by Cantonese at 6.6%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 9.3% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average of 3.4%.
9.3% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED25501/mount-waverley/topic/language