8.9% ▲ +315.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Baw Baw · Suburb / Locality
Language in Baw Baw
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Baw Baw compared to the state and national figures. While nearly 90% of the population uses only English at home, the area still shows more linguistic variety than most similar small localities.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 8.9% of residents use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas, though still far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. The most common non-English languages are Greek at 4.8% and Arabic at 2.2%, while only 1.1% of people speak little or no English.
1.1% ▲ —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Baw Baw [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10234/baw-baw/topic/language