7.4% ▼ -37.3%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballarat · Urban Centre
Language in Ballarat
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 7.4% of people in Ballarat use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. While this is much higher than most similar areas, the proportion of people speaking other languages has fallen from 11.7% since 2011. English remains the dominant tongue across the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87.6% of residents, while the most common other languages are Mandarin, Punjabi and Hindi. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.7% speaking little or no English, a figure that is well below the Victorian average.
0.7% ▼ -67.5%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL203001/ballarat/topic/language