8.4% ▲ +95.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bendigo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bendigo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Bendigo, where 85.6% of the population speaks only this language at home. While more people here use another language than in most similar areas, the overall figure is still far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the 22.3% national figure. Around 1.6% speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the Australian average but much higher than most similar areas.
1.6% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20208/bendigo/topic/language