15.8% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Big Hill · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Few changes have occurred in the way people speak at home in Big Hill since 2011. While 15.8% of residents use a language other than English, this is well below the national figure.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 73.7% of people. The proportion of residents using another language is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains far below the Victorian average. Notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English.
15.8% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
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/SAL20236/big-hill/topic/language