2.9% ▲ +79.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maffra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Maffra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 2.9% of people in Maffra speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area where the vast majority of residents use only English for their daily communication.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home by 91.8% of residents. While 0.4% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.4% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Maffra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21571/maffra/topic/language