6.2% ▲ +108.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ararat · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ararat
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 80% of people in Ararat speak only English at home, making it a very linguistically uniform area. While it has a higher share of non-English speakers than many similar regions, it remains far below the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, though just 1% speak little or no English. English is the dominant tongue, followed by small numbers of people speaking Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog and Hindi.
1.0% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Ararat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20053/ararat/topic/language