16.5% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Geelong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Geelong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Geelong speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 16.5% of the population uses another language, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 78.2% of residents, while Mandarin and Italian are the most common other languages. Only 1.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
1.3% ▼ -39.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20973/geelong/topic/language