3.2% ▲ +8.4%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nicholson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Nicholson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Nicholson, where the proportion of people using another tongue at home is around the middle for its level. Only 3.2% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, accounting for 92.8% of the population. While only 0.3% of residents speak little or no English, this is higher than most similar areas despite being well below the Victoria average of 4.4%.
0.3% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Nicholson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21941/nicholson/topic/language