2.5% ▼ -57.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bass · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bass
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as most similar areas, Bass is a place where very few people use a language other than English. Only 2.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 88.6% of residents. While the area is far below the Victorian average for non-English speakers, it is actually higher than most similar areas when it comes to people who speak little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Bass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20164/bass/topic/language