1.3% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Toorbul · Urban Centre
Language in Toorbul
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 1.3% of people in Toorbul (L) use a language other than English at home. This is a very low figure compared to the rest of the country, making the area overwhelmingly English-speaking. This trend has remained steady for over a decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.2% of residents, which is far below the national figure of 22.3% for non-English speakers. Consistent with this, 0.0% of people speak little or no English, a result that 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 Toorbul [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321107/toorbul/topic/language