2.2% ▲ +0.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rochester · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rochester
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 91.1% of people in Rochester. This makes the town far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.2% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Despite this, the 0.5% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas.
0.5% ▲ +29.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Rochester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22184/rochester/topic/language