9.2% ▲ +36.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sherbrooke · Suburb / Locality
Language in Sherbrooke
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the primary tongue in Sherbrooke, where 86.7% of residents speak only one language. While the area is far less diverse than the national average, it has seen a small increase in the number of people using a language other than English at home since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.2% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though still far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Only 2% of residents speak little or no English, a rate a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
2.0% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Sherbrooke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22278/sherbrooke/topic/language