4.4% ▲ +22.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Trafalgar · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Trafalgar, where only 4.4% of people use another tongue at home. This is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%, making the area much less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.2% of residents speak only English. While those who speak little or no English make up just 0.8% of the population, this is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
4.4% ▲ +22.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.8% ▲ +90.5%
Higher than 74% 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 Trafalgar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22565/trafalgar/topic/language