2.3% ▼ -48.8%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maldon · Urban Centre
Language in Maldon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Maldon use a language other than English at home, which is much lower than most similar areas. Only 2.3% of residents speak another language, a figure that is far below the Victorian and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary tongue for 93.8% of the community. The 2.3% who use another language at home is far below the national figure of 22.3%, and this proportion has fallen since 2011.
0.4% ▼ -55.1%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Maldon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215052/maldon/topic/language