2.9% ▼ -20.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Shoreham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Shoreham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Shoreham compared to the rest of the country. Only 2.9% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.5% of the population, and nobody in the area speaks little or no English. While the 2.9% who use other languages is around the middle for similar areas, it remains well below the Victorian average of 27.6%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Shoreham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22279/shoreham/topic/language