57.3% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 56.2%
- 2016: 58.4%
- 2021: 57.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brimbank · Council (LGA)
Language in Brimbank
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of all residents in Brimbank use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This linguistic diversity is a defining feature of the area, where 57.3% of people speak another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly 19% of people speak Vietnamese at home, while 36.3% speak only English. This diversity is reflected in the 13.6% who speak little or no English, which is well above the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
13.6% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 13.6%
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).
More for Brimbank
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Brimbank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21180/brimbank/topic/language