6.1% ▼ -9.4%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dover · Urban Centre
Language in Dover
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for nearly everyone in Dover, where 86.9% of people speak it exclusively. While a small number of residents use other languages, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This has barely changed since 2011, and notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
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.
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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621010/dover/topic/language