2.4% ▲ +60.3%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gannawarra · Council (LGA)
Language in Gannawarra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small rise in the use of non-English languages has occurred in Gannawarra since 2011, though the area remains very linguistically uniform. Only 2.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.6% of residents. Very few people speak little or no English at 0.3%, a figure that is well below the national average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.3% ▲ +36.7%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Gannawarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22250/gannawarra/topic/language