32.4% ▲ +662.8%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Melton · Urban Centre
Language in Melton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 10 percentage points separates Melton from the national average in language diversity. This is a highly multicultural area where 32.4% of people speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has surged from just 4.3% in 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 60.4% of residents, but Punjabi is common at 6.6%, followed by Hindi, Tagalog, and Arabic. The proportion of people who speak little or no English is 4.4%, which is a little above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas.
4.4% ▲ +498.6%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Melton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL211002/melton/topic/language