3.0% ▲ +42.8%
Lower than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southern Grampians · Council (LGA)
Language in Southern Grampians
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Southern Grampians, where only 3% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure and makes the area one of the most linguistically uniform places in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents need translation services, with just 0.3% speaking little or no English, a figure well below the Victorian average. While 91.1% speak only English, the use of other languages rose slightly to 3% since 2011.
0.3% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Southern Grampians [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26260/southern-grampians/topic/language