4.0% ▲ +26.8%
Lower than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Gippsland · Council (LGA)
Language in East Gippsland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in East Gippsland, where only 4% of people use another language at home. This is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia, making it a linguistically very uniform region. Most residents communicate exclusively in English in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 88.4% of the population speaks only English at home, which is much higher than the national figure. While the use of other languages rose slightly to 4% since 2011, those who speak little or no English remain very few at 0.6%.
0.6% ▲ +27.0%
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 East Gippsland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22110/east-gippsland/topic/language