7.1% ▲ +54.7%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Belgrave Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Belgrave Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Belgrave Heights, where only 7.1% of people use another language at home. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the state and national figures, with the vast majority of residents speaking English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the 7.1% who use another language is higher than in most similar areas, it remains far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.4% speaking little or no English, a figure well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -30.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Belgrave Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20189/belgrave-heights/topic/language