North Ward
Language used at home
In North Ward, 23.7954 of people used a language other than English at home in 2016.
North Ward'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.
North Ward'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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| North Ward - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2016 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | IMAP area % | Number | % | IMAP area % | 2011 to 2016 | |
| Speaks English only | 24,282 | 67.4 | 58.6 | 36500 | 21,408 | 72.3 | 63.2 | +2,874 |
 Non-English total | 8,571 | 23.8 | 32.1 | 36501 | 5,878 | 19.9 | 28.6 | +2,692 |
| Not stated | 3,166 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 36502 | 2,327 | 7.9 | 8.2 | +839 |
| Total Population | 36,020 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 29,614 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +6,405 | |
The Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMAP) area comprises the following 5 LGAs: Maribyrnong (C), Melbourne (C), Port Phillip (C), Stonnington (C) & Yarra (C).
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2011 and 2016. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| North Ward - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2016 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | IMAP area % | Number | % | IMAP area % | 2011 to 2016 | |
| Mandarin | 2,110 | 5.9 | 7.3 | 36007 | 785 | 2.7 | 3.9 | +1,325 |
| Cantonese | 652 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 36006 | 513 | 1.7 | 2.5 | +138 |
| Greek | 537 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 36015 | 552 | 1.9 | 2.8 | -15 |
| Italian | 419 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 36022 | 329 | 1.1 | 1.6 | +90 |
| Russian | 410 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 36030 | 358 | 1.2 | 0.6 | +52 |
| Spanish | 396 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 36034 | 227 | 0.8 | 0.8 | +169 |
| French | 370 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 36013 | 277 | 0.9 | 0.6 | +93 |
| Hindi | 249 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 36016 | 238 | 0.8 | 0.8 | +11 |
| Indonesian | 226 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 36018 | 187 | 0.6 | 0.9 | +39 |
| Vietnamese | 212 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 36037 | 117 | 0.4 | 3.3 | +95 |
| German | 189 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 36014 | 179 | 0.6 | 0.5 | +10 |
| Japanese | 187 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 36023 | 134 | 0.5 | 0.4 | +53 |
| Arabic | 181 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 36004 | 107 | 0.4 | 0.8 | +74 |
| Persian | 134 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 36019 | 60 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +74 |
| Thai | 128 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 36102 | 94 | 0.3 | 0.4 | +34 |
| Polish | 107 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 36028 | 130 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -23 |
| Portuguese | 102 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 36029 | 47 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +55 |
| Korean | 101 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 36025 | 76 | 0.3 | 0.5 | +25 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 95 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 36011 | 47 | 0.2 | 0.4 | +48 |
| Chinese, nfd | 86 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 36055 | 43 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +43 |
| Hebrew | 86 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36066 | 77 | 0.3 | 0.2 | +10 |
| Tamil | 81 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36035 | 37 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +44 |
| Gujarati | 80 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36064 | 99 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -18 |
| Turkish | 77 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36036 | 60 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +17 |
| Serbian | 76 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36032 | 79 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -3 |
| Dutch | 66 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36010 | 47 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +19 |
| Sinhalese | 65 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36033 | 35 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +30 |
| Telugu | 57 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 36099 | 81 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -23 |
| Punjabi | 56 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36088 | 33 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +23 |
| Afrikaans | 53 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36044 | 28 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +25 |
| Bengali | 46 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36050 | 36 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +10 |
| Hungarian | 46 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36017 | 34 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +13 |
| Swedish | 42 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36097 | 32 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +10 |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 40 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36068 | 22 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +18 |
| Ukrainian | 35 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36107 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +23 |
| Croatian | 35 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36009 | 47 | 0.2 | 0.3 | -12 |
| Romanian | 33 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36089 | 24 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +9 |
| Yiddish | 31 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36111 | 52 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -22 |
| Malay | 31 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36076 | 32 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -1 |
| Tibetan | 28 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36103 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +21 |
| Marathi | 28 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36080 | 19 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +9 |
| Malayalam | 27 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36077 | 37 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -10 |
| Kannada | 25 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36071 | 26 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -1 |
| Non-verbal so described | 25 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36082 | 33 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -8 |
| Macedonian | 24 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36026 | 31 | 0.1 | 0.3 | -7 |
| Urdu | 23 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36108 | 32 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -9 |
| Wu | 21 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36110 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +14 |
| Nepali | 17 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 36081 | 17 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Norwegian | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36083 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +4 |
| Armenian | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36047 | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +3 |
| Czech | 15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36056 | 17 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -2 |
| Khmer | 14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36024 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +14 |
| Maltese | 12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36027 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +12 |
| Bosnian | 12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36051 | 18 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -6 |
| Amharic | 12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36046 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +6 |
| Oromo | 12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36085 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +12 |
| Somali | 12 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 36094 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | +9 |
| Tigrinya | 11 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36112 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +11 |
| Shona | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36091 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +2 |
| Danish | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36057 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +8 |
| Finnish | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36063 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +6 |
| Lao | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36074 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +4 |
| Samoan | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36031 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +3 |
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The Inner Melbourne Action Plan (IMAP) area comprises the following 5 LGAs: Maribyrnong (C), Melbourne (C), Port Phillip (C), Stonnington (C) & Yarra (C).
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 North Ward in 2016 compared to IMAP area 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, 67.4% of the population used English only, and 23.8 used a non-English language, compared with 58.6% and 32.1% respectively for IMAP area.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in North Ward was Mandarin, with 5.9% of the population, or 2,110 people using this language at home.
The major differences between the languages used at home for the population of North Ward and IMAP area in 2016 were:
- A smaller percentage using Vietnamese at home (0.6% compared to 3.2%)
- A smaller percentage using Mandarin at home (5.9% compared to 7.3%)
Emerging groups
Between 2011 and 2016, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 2,693 or 45.8%, and the number of people who used English only increased by 2,874 or 13.4%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in North Ward between 2011 and 2016 were for those using:
- Mandarin (+1,325 persons)
- Spanish (+169 persons)
- Cantonese (+138 persons)
- Vietnamese (+95 persons)