4.3% ▲ +403.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Illowa · Suburb / Locality
Language in Illowa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 91.4% of people in Illowa. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area, with far fewer people using other languages at home compared to the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Despite this, the area is noted as having a higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, even though the actual figure is 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 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 Illowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21228/illowa/topic/language