8.7% ▲ +98.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bacchus Marsh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bacchus Marsh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.4% of people in Bacchus Marsh. While more people here use a language other than English at home compared to most similar areas, the overall figure remains far below the Victorian and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.7% of residents speak another language at home, with Punjabi being the most common non-English tongue at 2.3%. Only 1.0% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas but well below the state average.
1.0% ▲ +65.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Bacchus Marsh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20095/bacchus-marsh/topic/language