5.1% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bass Coast · Council (LGA)
Language in Bass Coast
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Barely any change has occurred in the linguistic makeup of Bass Coast since 2011, with 5.1% of people speaking another language at home. This is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia, as the vast majority of the community speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 88.2% of residents, while Italian and Greek are the next most common languages. Only 0.5% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the Victorian figure.
0.5% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Bass Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA20740/bass-coast/topic/language