7.9% ▲ +33.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballarat Central · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ballarat Central
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 86.4% of people in Ballarat Central. While more residents here speak another language at home than in most similar areas, the figure is still far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.9% of people use a language other than English at home, though this remains far below the 22.3% national figure. Only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.6% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Ballarat Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20111/ballarat-central/topic/language