4.0% ▲ +26.2%
Lower than 88% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gippsland - East · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Gippsland - East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.0% of people in Gippsland - East use a language other than English at home, though this figure has risen slightly since 2011. The area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 88.4% of residents, while only 0.6% speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the Victorian average. This lack of language diversity is reflected in the small number of other languages spoken, such as Italian at 0.4% and Mandarin at 0.3%.
0.6% ▲ +25.7%
Lower than 76% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Gippsland - East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20502/gippsland-east/topic/language