23.7% ▼ -41.2%
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Prahran (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Prahran (Southern Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A smaller share of people in Prahran use another language at home compared to the Victorian average, though the figure remains slightly above the national level. While 23.7% of residents speak a language other than English, this is a significant drop from 40.3% in 2011. This shift makes the area less linguistically diverse than it was a decade ago.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly 70% of people speak only English at home, with Mandarin (4.0%) and Greek (2.3%) being the most common other languages. While this area has a higher share of non-English speakers than most similar places, only 2.8% of residents speak little or no English.
2.8% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Prahran (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26806/prahran/topic/language