Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

Languages other than English in Mornington Peninsula

Mornington Peninsula is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 4.6 per cent of residents used another language at home, most often Italian. The share nationally is at least twice Mornington Peninsula's. Spanish has grown by more than half since 2016.

Residents: 167,221
Speak another language: 7,622
Languages at home: 90
Change since 2016: +13.8%

Which communities in Mornington Peninsula speak another language at home?

Italian leads a short list of small communities.

Italian

1,458 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.9 per cent of residents.

Greek

1,315 speakers

About 0.8 per cent of all residents.

German

488 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

What sets Mornington Peninsula apart from Victoria?

Across Victoria, the share speaking another language is more than double. In Victoria, 44 councils rank above Mornington Peninsula.

Mornington Peninsula: 4.6%
Victoria: 26.6%
Australia: 21.3%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

The full diversity index, with Mornington Peninsula highlighted.

Do Mornington Peninsula's suburbs differ much?

Dromana leads, Crib Point trails, and the rest sit close between them.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

How the headline share is counted: 4.6% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 9,098 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 10.0%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 4.8%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

Figures for Mornington Peninsula itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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