20.8% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brighton East · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brighton East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around one in five people in Brighton East use a language other than English at home, making it more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. While this is well below the Victorian average, the mix of languages reflects a global reach in a local setting.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.3% of residents, though 20.8% speak another tongue, with Mandarin (4.6%) and Greek (2.7%) being the most common. A small number of people, 2.3%, speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
2.3% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20338/brighton-east/topic/language