4.1% ▼ -45.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kinglake Central · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kinglake Central
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Kinglake Central, with 84.7% of residents speaking only English at home. This is a far lower proportion of people using another language than the Victorian average, meaning the area is much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While Punjabi is the most common non-English language at 1.7%, the 1.2% who speak little or no English is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Kinglake Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21359/kinglake-central/topic/language