4.9% ▼ -55.2%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Echuca - Moama (Echuca Part) · Urban Centre
Language in Echuca - Moama (Echuca Part)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A falling share of the population has used a language other than English at home in Echuca - Moama (Echuca Part), which dropped from 10.9% in 2011 to 4.9% in 2021. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with nearly 89% of people speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 4.9% of people use another language at home—which is higher than most similar areas—this is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Very few people struggle with English here; only 0.6% speak little or no English, a figure that fell 3.5 points since 2016.
0.6% ▼ -85.2%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Echuca - Moama (Echuca Part) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212002/echuca-moama/topic/language