7.0% ▲ +71.0%
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballarat · Council (LGA)
Language in Ballarat
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of people in Ballarat, where only 7% of residents use another language at home. While this is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia, the number of people speaking other languages has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 88.1% of people speak only English, and the 7% who use another language at home is much lower than the 27.6% seen across Victoria. Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.7% speak little or no English, a figure that has remained steady since 2016.
0.7% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA20570/ballarat/topic/language