7.6% ▲ +41.2%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Stawell · Urban Centre
Language in Stawell
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Stawell speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 7.6% of the population uses another language, this is still far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 83.4% of the community, though 7.6% of people use another language at home, which is a rise of 2.2 percentage points since 2011. Those who speak little or no English make up 1.4% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but well below the Victorian average.
1.4% ▲ +288.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Stawell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214020/stawell/topic/language