29.2% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 75% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Belmont (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Belmont (East Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of people in Belmont speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the state figure. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other similar places. This trend has grown steadily, rising by 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 63.9% of residents speak only English, Mandarin is the most common other language at 4%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 3.8% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most other areas.
3.8% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Belmont (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50702/belmont/topic/language