2.8% ▲ +119.0%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beaufort · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 90% of people at home in Beaufort, making it far more linguistically uniform than the rest of the country. Only 2.8% of residents use another language at home, a figure that sits well below both the state and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
While very few people use another language, those who speak little or no English make up 0.4% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas. This small group is still well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
2.8% ▲ +119.0%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Beaufort [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20181/beaufort/topic/language