4.6% ▲ +50.2%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Torquay - Jan Juc · Urban Centre
Language in Torquay - Jan Juc
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Torquay - Jan Juc, where 91.1% of people speak only English at home. While the number of people using other languages has risen slightly to 4.6%, this remains far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 0.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia. Apart from English, the most common languages spoken are Italian, Greek, Mandarin and Arabic, though these each represent a very small minority of the population.
0.3% —
Higher than 55% 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 Torquay - Jan Juc [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212007/torquay-jan-juc/topic/language