14.5% —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Geelong · Urban Centre
Language in Geelong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Geelong, where 80.7% of people speak only this language at home. While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, the figure remains well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the 27.6% seen across Victoria. Only 2.1% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
2.1% —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
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 Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL203003/geelong/topic/language