4.9% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hopetoun · Urban Centre
Language in Hopetoun
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Hopetoun, where the proportion of people using another tongue at home has barely changed since 2011. Only 4.9% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 88.4% of people speak only English at home, and while 4.9% use another language, this is still much higher than in most similar areas. Just 1.0% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the state average.
1.0% ▲ +95.8%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221033/hopetoun/topic/language