15.7% ▲ +20.9%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brighton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brighton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Brighton use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 80.5% of the population speaks only English, about 15.7% of residents use another language, which is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 4.0%, followed by Greek at 1.8%. Only 1.9% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the Australian average of 3.4% but much higher than in most similar areas.
1.9% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20337/brighton/topic/language