4.5% ▲ +85.2%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Miners Rest · Suburb / Locality
Language in Miners Rest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English has remained the dominant language in Miners Rest, with very few residents using other languages at home. Only 4.5% of people speak a language other than English, which is far below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 93.2% of residents, meaning the proportion of people using another language is far below the Victorian average. Despite this, the 0.7% who speak little or no English is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.7% ▲ +55.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Miners Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21691/miners-rest/topic/language