30.5% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bentleigh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bentleigh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Bentleigh than in most similar areas. Around 30.5% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 66.2% of people speak only English, Mandarin is the most common second language at 7.4%, followed by Greek at 3.8%. About 4.4% of the population speak little or no English, a figure similar to the Victorian average.
4.4% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Bentleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20214/bentleigh/topic/language