54.1% ▲ +31.4%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 48.0%
- 2021: 54.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bella Vista · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bella Vista
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Bella Vista speak a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its type. This high level of diversity is seen in the 54.1% of residents who use a non-English language, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 43.7% of the population, while Mandarin (12.1%), Hindi (5.1%), Cantonese (4.3%), and Punjabi (4.1%) are also common. This diversity is reflected in the 5.6% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the national average.
5.6% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 5.6%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bella Vista [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10263/bella-vista/topic/language