6.0% ▲ +219.1%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whittlesea · Urban Centre
Language in Whittlesea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Whittlesea, where 90.1% of residents speak only this language. While this is far below the national figure, the number of people using a second language at home has risen to 6.0% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.0% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian average. This includes small groups speaking Italian, Greek and Arabic, though only 0.7% of residents speak little or no English.
0.7% —
Higher than 74% 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 Whittlesea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214021/whittlesea/topic/language