5.4% ▲ +124.4%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Northern Grampians · Council (LGA)
Language in Northern Grampians
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Northern Grampians, where 85.9% of people speak only English at home. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 5.4%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This rose from 2.4% in 2011, though those who speak little or no English remain a small group at 1.0%.
1.0% ▲ +72.3%
Higher than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Northern Grampians [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25810/northern-grampians/topic/language