5.2% ▲ +163.3%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brunswick Heads · Urban Centre
Language in Brunswick Heads
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Brunswick Heads compared to the rest of the state. While 88.1% of residents speak only English, the number of people using another language at home has risen to 5.2% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 0.4% of people here speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%. This low rate is consistent with the fact that most residents speak English only, though this figure is higher than in most similar areas.
0.4% ▲ +251.0%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.1%
- 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 Brunswick Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115029/brunswick-heads/topic/language