4.3% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Big Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Big Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue spoken in Big Hill, where 90.4% of the population speaks only this language. Very few people here use a language other than English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.3% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Despite this, the 1.4% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.4% ▲ —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Big Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20235/big-hill/topic/language