6.3% ▲ +123.8%
Lower than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sale · Urban Area
Language in Sale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people in Sale use a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the state. Only 6.3% of residents speak another language, which is well below both the Victorian and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the proportion of people using another language rose by 3.5 percentage points since 2011, 87.5% of residents speak only English. Very few people struggle with the language, as only 0.8% speak little or no English, a figure well below the Victorian average.
0.8% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 53% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2015/sale/topic/language