46.7% ▲ +1466.3%
Higher than 90% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 46.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bruce · Federal Electorate
Language in Bruce
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 47% of people in Bruce speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a huge shift for the area, where the proportion of multilingual residents has risen by 44 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 47.2% of residents, others include Mandarin, Arabic, Punjabi, and Greek. This diversity is reflected in the 8.4% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
8.4% ▲ +881.8%
Higher than 91% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 Bruce [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED204/bruce/topic/language