Fish Creek · Urban Centre

Language in Fish Creek

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the primary language spoken in Fish Creek, with 87.9% of residents using it exclusively at home. The area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state, though the number of people using another language has risen slightly over the last decade.

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📍 Fish Creek, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 3.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the 22.3% national figure. Consistent with this, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result well below both the Victorian and Australian averages.

3.4% ▲ +37.0%

Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.5%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 3.4%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

Language used at home

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In Fish Creek, English only is the majority at 100%.

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 Fish Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222025/fish-creek/topic/language