5.7% ▲ +80.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barkers Creek · Suburb / Locality
Language in Barkers Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Barkers Creek, where only 5.7% of people use another tongue at home. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains far below the national figure. Daily life here is very linguistically uniform compared to the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 88.5% of residents speak only English, the 0.6% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas. This small group is still well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Barkers Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20141/barkers-creek/topic/language