2.5% ▼ -34.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Echunga · Suburb / Locality
Language in Echunga
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Echunga, where only 2.5% of people use another tongue at home. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it is far below the national figure. The community is very linguistically uniform, with 92% of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 2.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the 22.3% seen across Australia. While 0.6% of the population speaks little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.6% ▲ +6.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Echunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40388/echunga/topic/language