3.5% ▲ +41.0%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boolarra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Boolarra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Boolarra, where only 3.5% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it an area with very little linguistic diversity compared to the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 87.1% of residents speak only English at home. While 0.3% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas, this is still well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.3% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Boolarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20288/boolarra/topic/language