4.5% —
Lower than 84% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Colac - Corangamite · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Colac - Corangamite
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 88.8% of people in Colac - Corangamite. Very few residents use another language at home, though this has risen slightly to 4.5% since the last census. The area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This low diversity is reflected in the fact that just 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, a figure well below the Victorian average.
0.9% ▲ +109.3%
Lower than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Colac - Corangamite [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/21703/colac-corangamite/topic/language