5.6% ▲ +8.5%
Lower than 85% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Grey · Federal Electorate
Language in Grey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Grey, where only 5.6% of people use another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%. The area is much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.5% speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%. While 86.8% speak only English, small numbers of people use languages such as Greek, Italian, Tagalog, and Punjabi.
0.5% ▼ -10.3%
Lower than 88% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Grey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED404/grey/topic/language