2.2% ▼ -30.0%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Elaine · Suburb / Locality
Language in Elaine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A tiny fraction of residents in Elaine use a language other than English at home, which is far below the state and national figures. Only 2.2% of people here speak a non-English language, making it much less linguistically diverse than most other areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 82.8% of residents. This explains why there are no people in the area who speak little or no English, a figure well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Elaine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20851/elaine/topic/language