7.3% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Traralgon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Traralgon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people in Traralgon. Only 7.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area compared to most parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 86.7% of people speak only English, a small number of residents use Italian, Mandarin, or Greek at home. Very few people struggle with the own language, with only 0.8% speaking little or no English, a figure that is well below the Victorian average.
0.8% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Traralgon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22569/traralgon/topic/language