5.1% ▼ -72.9%
Lower than 89% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gippsland · Federal Electorate
Language in Gippsland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Gippsland, spoken by 87.1% of residents. Very few people here use another language at home, and the number of people speaking a language other than English has fallen sharply over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This trend is reflected in the fact that just 0.7% of residents speak little or no English, a figure well below the state average.
0.7% ▼ -73.1%
Lower than 82% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Gippsland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED216/gippsland/topic/language