8.0% ▲ +131.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Colac · Suburb / Locality
Language in Colac
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Colac now speak a language other than English at home. While 8% of residents use another language, this is still far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Most people here speak only English, but the community is becoming slightly more linguistically diverse.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 86.3% of the population, though Mandarin is the most common second language at 2.6%. Around 2.5% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.5% ▲ +173.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20607/colac/topic/language