Echuca - Moama (Moama Part) · Urban Centre

Language in Echuca - Moama (Moama Part)

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Fewer people have spoken a language other than English at home in Echuca - Moama (Moama Part) since 2011. The area is now very linguistically uniform, with 90.8% of residents using only English. This makes it far less diverse than the national average.

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📍 Echuca - Moama (Moama Part), Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 3.2% of people here use another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.3% speak little or no English, a figure well below both the state and national levels.

3.2% ▼ -24.0%

Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.2%
  • 2016: 6.2%
  • 2021: 3.2%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.3% ▼ -56.5%

Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.7%
  • 2021: 0.3%

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.

Language used at home

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In Echuca - Moama (Moama Part), English only is the majority at 98%; Punjabi is next at 0%.

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 Echuca - Moama (Moama Part) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112007/echuca-moama/topic/language