2.0% ▼ -77.5%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rutherglen · Urban Centre
Language in Rutherglen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Rutherglen than in most similar areas. Just 2% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This reflects a significant shift in the community, as the proportion of non-English speakers has fallen by 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 94.3% of the population, and only 0.2% of people speak little or no English. This figure is well below the Victorian average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.2% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Rutherglen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215076/rutherglen/topic/language