4.0% —
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Polwarth (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Language in Polwarth (Western Victoria)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4% of people in Polwarth used a language other than English at home in 2021, though this is a slight increase from previous years. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 89.6% of residents. Only 0.7% of people speak little or no English, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
0.7% ▲ +77.9%
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Polwarth (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26708/polwarth/topic/language