3.2% ▲ +7.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kinglake · Urban Centre
Language in Kinglake
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Kinglake speaks only English at home, with 90.8% of the population using it as their sole language. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average. The proportion of people using other languages has stayed very stable over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English in 2021, a slight drop from 2016.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Kinglake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215042/kinglake/topic/language