5.0% ▲ +76.7%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ararat · Council (LGA)
Language in Ararat
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Ararat compared to the rest of the state. Only 5% of residents use another language at home, which is 23 percentage points below the Victorian figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 82.8% of people speak only English, those using another language at home rose slightly from 2.8% in 2011 to 5.0% in 2021. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.7% speaking little or no English, a figure well below the state average.
0.7% ▲ +3.9%
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Ararat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA20260/ararat/topic/language