3.6% ▲ +24.3%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Koonwarra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Koonwarra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating in Koonwarra, where 94% of people speak only this language at home. Very few residents use a different language, making the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. However, the 1.4% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.4% ▲ —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Koonwarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21386/koonwarra/topic/language