5.9% ▲ +43.0%
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Central Highlands · Council (LGA)
Language in Central Highlands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Central Highlands than in the rest of the country. Only 5.9% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While the area is overwhelmingly English-speaking, this figure has risen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 82.7% of people, and only 0.7% of the population speak little or no English. This last figure is a little below the national average and has barely changed since 2016. Small numbers of residents speak Tagalog, Mandarin, Punjabi or Hindi.
0.7% ▲ +52.1%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Central Highlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32270/central-highlands/topic/language