5.8% ▲ +52.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Birchip · Suburb / Locality
Language in Birchip
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Birchip, where 87% of residents speak only this language at home. While a small number of people use other languages, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.8% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Similarly, the 0.7% who speak little or no English is well below the state average, though this is still higher than most similar areas.
0.7% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Birchip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20244/birchip/topic/language