4.7% —
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bellarine (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Language in Bellarine (Western Victoria)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language use in Bellarine (Western Victoria) has remained very stable over the last few years. Only 4.7% of residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.4% of people here. The proportion of residents who speak another language is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%, and those who speak little or no English make up just 0.4% of the population.
0.4% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Bellarine (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20508/bellarine/topic/language