2.4% ▲ +81.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Terang · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 91.8% of people in Terang, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 2.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak little or no English, at just 0.4%. While this is higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
2.4% ▲ +81.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▲ +103.0%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Terang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22488/terang/topic/language