9.5% ▲ +47.8%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sunbury · Urban Centre
Language in Sunbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.8% of people in Sunbury. While English dominates, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 9.5%, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.5% of residents speak a language other than English at home, though this is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Only 0.9% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the state average but still much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% —
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
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 Sunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212006/sunbury/topic/language