34.0% ▲ +17.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bentleigh East · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bentleigh East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Bentleigh East compared to the rest of Australia. About 34% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the Victorian figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 63.1% of people speak only English, Mandarin (6.2%) and Greek (6.1%) are the most common other languages. Around 4.2% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national and state averages.
4.2% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20215/bentleigh-east/topic/language