24.5% —
Higher than 69% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bass (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
Language in Bass (Eastern Victoria)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 70.1% of people in Bass (Eastern Victoria). The area has seen a notable shift in its linguistic makeup, with the share of people using another language at home climbing 13 percentage points since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.5% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure. Punjabi is the most common non-English language at 5%, while 2.7% of people speak little or no English.
2.7% ▲ +90.5%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Bass (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20302/bass/topic/language