7.2% ▲ +245.9%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bright · Urban Centre
Language in Bright
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Bright, where 84.2% of people speak only this language at home. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, the proportion of people using a language other than English has risen to 7.2%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.2% of residents use another language at home, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian average. Very few people struggle with the language, as only 0.8% speak little or no English.
0.8% ▼ -30.2%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Bright [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215015/bright/topic/language