12.6% ▲ +237.9%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Swan Hill · Urban Centre
Language in Swan Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A surge in diversity has seen the number of people in Swan Hill using another language at home climb by nearly 9 percentage points since 2011. While 12.6% of residents now speak a language other than English, this remains well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.6% of people, with Punjabi, Vietnamese and Italian also spoken. Although a small 3.1% of residents speak little or no English, this is among the highest proportion for areas of this type.
3.1% ▲ +225.1%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213014/swan-hill/topic/language