2.6% ▲ +4.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bena · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bena
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language spoken in Bena, where very few people use another tongue at home. Only 2.6% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 91.7% of people speak only English at home, and notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English. This is well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Bena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20203/bena/topic/language