5.3% ▲ +43.5%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bairnsdale · Urban Area
Language in Bairnsdale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Bairnsdale compared to the rest of the country. Only 5.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 87.5% of the population. While the number of people using another language rose slightly since 2011, only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the Victorian average.
0.9% ▲ +51.8%
Higher than 60% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2002/bairnsdale/topic/language