26.1% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bell Post Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bell Post Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in four residents in Bell Post Hill use a language other than English at home, a figure well above the national average. This creates a diverse linguistic profile for the area, with about 26% of people speaking another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 68.9% of people speak only English, the area has a higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most other places. This 4.9% is a little above the Australian figure of 3.4%, with Italian, Arabic, Punjabi and Mandarin being the most common non-English languages.
4.9% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 Bell Post Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20192/bell-post-hill/topic/language