9.7% —
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Evelyn (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
Language in Evelyn (Eastern Victoria)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just under 10% of people in Evelyn speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia, though the number of people using other languages has risen slightly since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87.4% of residents, which is far below the state and national figures for language diversity. Only 1.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed over the last five years.
1.4% ▲ +12.0%
Lower than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Evelyn (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED22802/evelyn/topic/language