6.0% ▼ -84.6%
Lower than 83% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bendigo · Federal Electorate
Language in Bendigo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Bendigo than in most similar areas. Only 6.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This reflects a sharp change for the area, as the proportion of people using other languages has fallen by 33 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87.8% of the population, and only 1.1% of people speak little or no English. This is well below the Victorian figure of 4.4% and represents a 6.1 point drop since 2016. Small numbers of residents speak Mandarin, Punjabi, Italian or Tagalog.
1.1% ▼ -85.0%
Lower than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED203/bendigo/topic/language