2.3% ▼ -66.2%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cherbourg · Urban Centre
Language in Cherbourg
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Cherbourg, where almost everyone speaks it at home. Only 2.3% of residents use another language, making this area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
With 94.6% of people speaking only English, the proportion of residents using another language is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This has fallen since 2011, and now 0.0% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
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 Cherbourg [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315018/cherbourg/topic/language