4.5% ▲ +54.7%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Benalla · Urban Centre
Language in Benalla
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by the vast majority of people in Benalla, with 87.3% using it as their only language at home. While the number of people using other languages has risen slightly to 4.5% since 2011, this remains far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Australian average of 22.3%. Very few people struggle with English here; just 0.4% speak little or no English, a figure well below the state average.
0.4% ▼ -42.4%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Benalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214003/benalla/topic/language