12.4% ▲ +49.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Swan Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Swan Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 81.0% of people in Swan Hill. While most speak only English, the area has a higher variety of home languages than most similar places. This makes it a more linguistically diverse pocket of the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in similar areas, though well below the 22.3% national figure. Punjabi and Vietnamese are the most common non-English languages, while 3.0% of people speak little or no English.
3.0% ▲ +29.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22405/swan-hill/topic/language