18.6% ▲ +25.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hocking · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hocking
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in five people in Hocking use a language other than English at home. This mix of backgrounds makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, though it remains more English-speaking than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 18.6% of residents speak another language at home, a figure well below the Australian average of 22.3%. While English is the main language for 77.8% of people, others include Vietnamese, Mandarin and Tagalog. This diversity is reflected in the 2.2% who speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas.
2.2% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Hocking [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50645/hocking/topic/language