4.9% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cape Paterson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cape Paterson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Cape Paterson, where 92.7% of residents speak only English at home. While a small number of people use other languages, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 4.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but still far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, a rate that is well below the national average.
0.4% ▼ -59.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Cape Paterson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20473/cape-paterson/topic/language