6.6% ▲ +171.5%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bells Beach · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Bells Beach, where very few people need translation services for daily life. While 88.1% of residents speak only English, a small number of households use a language other than English at home.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.6% of people here use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.
6.6% ▲ +171.5%
Higher than 68% 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 Bells Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20200/bells-beach/topic/language