44.0% —
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 44.3%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sydenham (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Sydenham (Western Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 52.1% of people in Sydenham (Western Metropolitan). However, the area is far more linguistically diverse than the national average, with 44% of residents speaking another language at home. This high level of diversity has remained steady since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 44% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This is reflected in the local mix, where Vietnamese, Punjabi, Arabic, and Italian are the most common non-English languages. A little more than 5% of residents speak little or no English, a figure slightly above the Victorian average.
5.7% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Sydenham (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED28007/sydenham/topic/language