2.8% ▼ -41.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gherang · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gherang
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Gherang compared to the rest of the state. Only 2.8% of residents use another language at home, which is a huge gap compared to the Victorian average of 27.6%. This makes Gherang much less linguistically diverse than most other Australian areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 93.1% of residents. While only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, this is actually much higher than in most similar areas, despite being well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
0.8% ▲ —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Gherang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20989/gherang/topic/language