11.8% ▲ +398.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Falls Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Falls Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Daily life in Falls Creek is predominantly English-speaking, though the variety of languages spoken at home has grown. While 67.9% of people use only English, the proportion of residents using another language has risen significantly to 11.8%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 11.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas despite being far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Mandarin is the most common second language at 4.4%, and 2.8% of the population speak little or no English.
2.8% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Falls Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222024/falls-creek/topic/language