5.9% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bellarine · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 84.6% of people in Bellarine. While more residents here use a second language at home than in most similar areas, this is still far below the national figure.
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.9% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the 22.3% national average. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure well below both the state and national levels.
5.9% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Bellarine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20193/bellarine/topic/language