4.0% ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Castlemaine · Suburb / Locality
Language in Castlemaine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Castlemaine compared to the rest of the state. Only 4.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 81.0% of residents, with very few people speaking Italian, Mandarin, or Arabic. While 0.4% of the population speaks little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this remains well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -31.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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 Castlemaine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20516/castlemaine/topic/language