0.7% ▼ -53.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Shelbourne · Suburb / Locality
Language in Shelbourne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Shelbourne speaks English as their only language, making it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country. With only 0.7% of people using a language other than English at home, the area is much more uniform in its speech than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 96.7% of residents, a figure far below the 22.3% national average for other languages. Despite this, the area is ranked higher than most similar places for those who speak little or no English, though this remains well below the 3.4% Australian figure.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Shelbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22271/shelbourne/topic/language