Harrietville · Urban Centre

Language in Harrietville

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

English is the primary way people communicate in Harrietville, where very few residents use a different language at home. While the proportion of people speaking another language rose to 4.2% since 2011, this is still far below the national figure.

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📍 Harrietville, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 80.2% of the community speaks only English, and 4.2% use another language at home, which is much lower than the Victorian average. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.

4.2% ▲ +267.2%

Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 4.2%

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 Harrietville, English only is the majority at 99%; Italian is next at 1%.

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 Harrietville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222033/harrietville/topic/language