7.0% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bright · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bright
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 84.3% of people in Bright, making it far less linguistically diverse than most of Victoria. Only 7.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 7.0% of the population speaks a language other than English, this is far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but well below the state average.
0.8% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Bright [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20336/bright/topic/language