4.6% ▲ +126.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Echuca · Suburb / Locality
Language in Echuca
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 90% of people in Echuca speak only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria, with very few residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, the 0.5% who speak little or no English is higher than in most other similar places.
0.5% ▲ +59.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Echuca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20838/echuca/topic/language