17.6% ▲ +41.1%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Greater Shepparton · Council (LGA)
Language in Greater Shepparton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 74.7% of people in Greater Shepparton. While English is dominant, the area is becoming more linguistically diverse as the share of people using another language at home has risen to 17.6%. This is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using other languages has grown by 5.1 percentage points since 2011, with Punjabi, Arabic, Italian and Mandarin being the most common non-English tongues. About 3.6% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
3.6% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Greater Shepparton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22830/greater-shepparton/topic/language