Frankston City
Language used at home
In Frankston City, 11.3002 of people used a language other than English at home in 2021.
Frankston City's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
Frankston City's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
Total population
| Language used at home - Summary | ||||||||
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| Frankston City - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2006 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Frankston Central % | Number | % | Frankston Central % | 2006 to 2021 | |
| Speaks English only | 116,411 | 83.6 | 76.1 | 36500 | 101,316 | 86.0 | 79.2 | +15,095 |
 Non-English total | 15,739 | 11.3 | 14.8 | 36501 | 9,630 | 8.2 | 12.1 | +6,109 |
| Not stated | 7,131 | 5.1 | 9.1 | 36502 | 6,853 | 5.8 | 8.7 | +278 |
| Total Population | 139,281 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 117,799 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +21,482 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2006 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| Frankston City - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2006 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | Frankston Central % | Number | % | Frankston Central % | 2006 to 2021 | |
| Mandarin | 1,371 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 36007 | 368 | 0.3 | 1.0 | +1,003 |
| Greek | 1,238 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 36015 | 946 | 0.8 | 1.0 | +292 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 905 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 36011 | 405 | 0.3 | 0.4 | +500 |
| Italian | 712 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 36022 | 857 | 0.7 | 1.0 | -145 |
| Russian | 699 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 36030 | 233 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +466 |
| Spanish | 671 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 36034 | 509 | 0.4 | 0.4 | +162 |
| Malayalam | 561 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 36077 | 130 | 0.1 | 1.0 | +431 |
| Arabic | 552 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 36004 | 395 | 0.3 | 0.4 | +157 |
| German | 438 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36014 | 523 | 0.4 | 0.6 | -85 |
| Hindi | 431 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 36016 | 268 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +163 |
| Cantonese | 394 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36006 | 220 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +174 |
| French | 363 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 36013 | 229 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +134 |
| Punjabi | 360 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 36088 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +349 |
| Thai | 353 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36102 | 53 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +300 |
| Polish | 350 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36028 | 318 | 0.3 | 0.3 | +32 |
| Tamil | 333 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36035 | 180 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +153 |
| Vietnamese | 327 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36037 | 93 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +234 |
| Serbian | 288 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36032 | 204 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +84 |
| Croatian | 265 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36009 | 261 | 0.2 | 0.4 | +4 |
| Sinhalese | 256 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36033 | 175 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +81 |
| Afrikaans | 255 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36044 | 101 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +154 |
| Dutch | 234 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36010 | 393 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -159 |
| Bosnian | 216 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36051 | 255 | 0.2 | 0.4 | -39 |
| Samoan | 186 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36031 | 130 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +56 |
| Turkish | 180 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36036 | 77 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +103 |
| Dari | 153 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36113 | 194 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -41 |
| Indonesian | 152 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36018 | 75 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +77 |
| Portuguese | 146 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36029 | 48 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +98 |
| Auslan | 143 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36049 | 89 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +54 |
| Khmer | 141 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36024 | 81 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +60 |
| Persian | 140 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36019 | 94 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +46 |
| Japanese | 133 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36023 | 51 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +82 |
| Hungarian | 126 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36017 | 170 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -44 |
| Korean | 121 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36025 | 35 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +86 |
| Māori (New Zealand) | 115 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36079 | 89 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +26 |
| Romanian | 109 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36089 | 104 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +5 |
| Nepali | 92 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 36081 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +89 |
| Gujarati | 77 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36064 | 10 | 0.0 | -- | +67 |
| Urdu | 76 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36108 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +59 |
| Māori (Cook Island) | 69 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36078 | 48 | 0.0 | -- | +21 |
| Telugu | 67 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36099 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +60 |
| Shona | 66 | 0.0 | -- | 36091 | 40 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +26 |
| Macedonian | 61 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36026 | 33 | 0.0 | -- | +28 |
| Swedish | 59 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36097 | 23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +36 |
| Czech | 59 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36056 | 60 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -1 |
| Nuer | 55 | 0.0 | -- | 36084 | 33 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +22 |
| Bengali | 50 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36050 | 18 | 0.0 | -- | +32 |
| Hebrew | 48 | 0.0 | -- | 36066 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +39 |
| Malay | 47 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36076 | 33 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +14 |
| Slovak | 40 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36092 | 30 | 0.0 | -- | +10 |
| Burmese | 37 | 0.0 | -- | 36053 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +34 |
| Slovene | 36 | 0.0 | -- | 36093 | 38 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -2 |
| Fijian | 35 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36061 | 27 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +8 |
| Danish | 33 | 0.0 | -- | 36057 | 26 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +7 |
| Maltese | 33 | 0.0 | -- | 36027 | 56 | 0.0 | -- | -23 |
| Marathi | 33 | 0.0 | -- | 36080 | 6 | 0.0 | -- | +27 |
| Tongan | 31 | 0.0 | -- | 36105 | 11 | 0.0 | -- | +20 |
| Ukrainian | 30 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36107 | 33 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -3 |
| Kannada | 30 | 0.0 | -- | 36071 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +17 |
| Hazaraghi | 28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36114 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hakka | 26 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36065 | 12 | 0.0 | -- | +14 |
| Armenian | 26 | 0.0 | -- | 36047 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +14 |
| Serbo-Croatian Yugoslavian, so described | 25 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36090 | 53 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -28 |
| Latvian | 25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36075 | 40 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -15 |
| Albanian | 24 | 0.0 | -- | 36045 | 15 | 0.0 | -- | +9 |
| Swahili | 22 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36096 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +11 |
| Assyrian/Aramaic | 22 | 0.0 | -- | 36048 | 13 | 0.0 | -- | +9 |
| Tibetan | 19 | 0.0 | -- | 36103 | 0 | -- | -- | +19 |
| Fijian Hindustani | 19 | 0.0 | -- | 36002 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 19 | 0.0 | -- | 36068 | 12 | 0.0 | -- | +7 |
| Lithuanian | 18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36115 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Yoruba | 18 | 0.0 | -- | 36120 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Bulgarian | 18 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36052 | 19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -1 |
| Chinese, nfd | 18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36055 | 8 | 0.0 | -- | +10 |
| Lao | 17 | 0.0 | -- | 36074 | 12 | 0.0 | -- | +5 |
| Norwegian | 16 | 0.0 | -- | 36083 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +13 |
| Finnish | 16 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36063 | 7 | 0.0 | -- | +9 |
| Dinka | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36059 | 0 | -- | -- | +14 |
| Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian) | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36123 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Mauritian Creole | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36119 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pashto | 12 | 0.0 | -- | 36086 | 4 | 0.0 | -- | +8 |
| Sign languages, nfd | 10 | 0.0 | -- | 36124 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Konkani | 10 | 0.0 | -- | 36116 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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Excludes languages spoken at home by fewer than 10 people.
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of Frankston City in 2021 compared to Frankston Central shows that there was a larger proportion of people who used English only, and a smaller proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 83.6% of the population used English only, and 11.3 used a non-English language, compared with 76.1% and 14.8% respectively for Frankston Central.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in Frankston City was Mandarin, with 1.0% of the population, or 1,371 people using this language at home.
There were no major differences between Frankston City and Frankston Central in 2021.
Emerging groups
Between 2006 and 2021, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 6,109 or 63.4%, and the number of people who used English only increased by 15,095 or 14.9%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in Frankston City between 2006 and 2021 were for those using:
- Mandarin (+1,003 persons)
- Filipino/Tagalog (+500 persons)
- Russian (+466 persons)
- Malayalam (+431 persons)