7.2% ▲ +117.8%
Higher than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bendigo · Urban Area
Language in Bendigo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 7.2% of people in Bendigo speak a language other than English at home. This is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia, though the number of people using other languages has more than doubled since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 87.5% of residents, 1.4% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Other languages spoken in the area include Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog and Hindi.
1.4% ▲ +27.8%
Higher than 76% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2004/bendigo/topic/language