4.4% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Poowong · Urban Centre
Language in Poowong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Poowong (L), where 86.4% of people speak only English at home. While most residents use English, there has been a slight increase in the number of people who speak other languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. However, the proportion of people who speak little or no English has risen to 1.3% since 2016, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
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 Poowong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222071/poowong/topic/language