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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idIn 2021, 21.4% of children aged 0 to 4 years in the City of Melville spoke a language other than English at home.
The City of Melville's language statistics show the proportion of the population in the selected age group who speak a language at home other than English, and the main languages spoken. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language at different ages.
The City of Melville's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth as different cultural groups are better analysed through the different topics. For major language groups, Community of Interest profiles are available for that specific language by a range of characteristics.
Q:
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
| Language spoken at home - Ranked by size | |||||||
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| City of Melville - 0 to 4 years | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||
| Language | Number | % | City of Melville - Total population | Number | % | City of Melville - Total population | 2016 to 2021 |
| Mandarin | 290 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 278 | 5.6 | 4.3 | +12 |
| Cantonese | 63 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 52 | 1.1 | 2.1 | +11 |
| Indonesian | 63 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 50 | 1.0 | 1.4 | +13 |
| Non-verbal, so described | 52 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 98 | 2.0 | 0.1 | -46 |
| Spanish | 45 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 45 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Korean | 41 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 45 | 0.9 | 0.6 | -4 |
| Persian (excluding Dari) | 40 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 28 | 0.6 | 0.6 | +12 |
| French | 35 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 46 | 0.9 | 0.5 | -11 |
| Italian | 34 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 21 | 0.4 | 1.4 | +13 |
| German | 26 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 26 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 |
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| Language spoken at home - Summary | |||||||
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| City of Melville - 0 to 4 years | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||
| Language summary | Number | % | City of Melville - Total population | Number | % | City of Melville - Total population | 2016 to 2021 |
| Speaks English only | 3,749 | 75.6 | 76.1 | 3,711 | 75.4 | 75.3 | +38 |
| Non-English total | 1,064 | 21.4 | 20.3 | 995 | 20.2 | 19.9 | +69 |
| Not stated | 148 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 217 | 4.4 | 4.8 | -69 |
| Total people | 4,961 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,923 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +38 |
Dominant groups
Analysis of the language spoken at home by children aged 0 to 4 years in the City of Melville in 2021 compared to the total population in the City of Melville shows that there was a similar proportion of people who spoke English only, and a larger proportion of those speaking a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 75.6% of children aged 0 to 4 years spoke English only, and 21.4% of% spoke a non-English language, compared with 76.1% and 20.3% respectively for the total population in the City of Melville.
Other than English, the dominant language spoken at home by children aged 0 to 4 years in the City of Melville was Mandarin, with 5.8% of the population, or 290 people speaking this language at home.
The major difference between the languages spoken at home for children aged 0 to 4 years of the City of Melville and the total population in the City of Melville in 2021 was:
- A larger percentage speaking Mandarin at home (5.8% compared to 4.7%)
Emerging groups
Between 2016 and 2021, the number of children aged 0 to 4 years who spoke a language other than English at home increased by 69 or 6.9%, and the number of people who spoke English only increased by 38 or 1.0%.
There were no major changes for the City of Melville between 2016 and 2021.
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