4.0% ▲ +251.2%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Bendigo · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Bendigo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in West Bendigo compared to the rest of the country. Only 4% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than both Victoria and Australia as a whole.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90% of residents speak only English at home. While the 1.3% of people who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas, this is still well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
1.3% ▼ -29.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 West Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22754/west-bendigo/topic/language