7.3% ▲ +69.8%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blackwood · Urban Centre
Language in Blackwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Blackwood compared to the rest of the state. While 7.3% of residents use another language at home—a figure that is much higher than in similar small areas—this is still far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Most residents speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 86.6% of the community, though the use of other languages rose 3.0 percentage points since 2011. Only 1.3% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the state figure of 4.4%.
1.3% ▲ —
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Blackwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222008/blackwood/topic/language