Ballarat Central, Ballarat

What Ballarat Central speaks at home

Most homes in Ballarat Central speak only English. At the 2021 Census, about 330 people used another language, most often Punjabi. No language other than English reaches one resident in 100. The share speaking another language is less than half the figure for Victoria.

Residents
5,179
Speak another language
6.4%+40.6%
Languages spoken
34
Born overseas
10.0%

What languages do people in Ballarat Central speak besides English?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Punjabi
    34+61.9%
  2. 02
    Mandarin
    33+17.9%
  3. 03
    Nepali
    26
  4. 04
    Japanese
    24+100%
  5. 05
    Malayalam
    21-22.2%
  6. 06
    Bengali
    20
  7. 07
    Vietnamese
    16+129%
  8. 08
    Greek
    13
  9. 09
    Spanish
    13
  10. 10
    Polish
    9

Is Ballarat Central more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is less than half the figure for Australia as a whole.

Ballarat Central
6.4%
Victoria
26.6%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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