6.9% ▲ +69.6%
Lower than 66% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballarat · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Ballarat
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Ballarat, where only 6.9% of people speak another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English-only speakers make up 88.3% of the population, the use of other languages rose 2.8 points since 2011. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.7% speaking little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.7% ▼ -3.5%
Lower than 70% of sub-region (sa3) 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/sa3/20101/ballarat/topic/language