18.7% ▲ +77.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Colignan · Suburb / Locality
Language in Colignan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 19% of people in Colignan speak a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia, it shows a more diverse linguistic mix than nearby rural spots.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.7% of residents use another language at home, with Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese and Greek being the most common after English. A small number of people, 3.0%, speak little or no English, which is a little below the Victorian figure.
3.0% ▼ -68.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Colignan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20615/colignan/topic/language