4.1% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Surf Coast · Council (LGA)
Language in Surf Coast
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90.7% of people in Surf Coast. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most of the state, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This lack of diversity is reflected in the fact that just 0.3% of residents speak little or no English.
0.3% ▼ -10.4%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Surf Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26490/surf-coast/topic/language