Mandarin
2,909 speakers
The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.
Bayside, Victoria
Languages spoken in Bayside (Vic.)
Bayside has no single dominant second language: one in seven residents spoke a language other than English at home at the 2021 Census, Mandarin most often. The rest are smaller communities, below one in 100 residents each. Bayside's share is below the share for Victoria.
- Residents
- 100,802
- Speak another language
- 14,884
- Languages at home
- 108
- Change since 2016
- +9.7%
Which languages lead in Bayside?
How does Bayside compare with the City of Melbourne?
In the City of Melbourne, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Bayside is 29th among Victoria councils.
- Bayside (Vic.)
- 14.8%
- City of Melbourne
- 45.0%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Which languages lead in Bayside, and how have they changed?
Each row is a language and the number who speak it at home, beside its change on 2016. The headline total also includes broad ABS categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which aren't listed here.
How do Bayside's languages compare in size?
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Which language is growing fastest in Bayside?
Fastest-growing language
Turkish
+44.8% since 2016
Turkish has grown by more than a quarter since 2016, the steepest rise of any language that had 150 or more speakers in 2016.
How do Bayside's suburbs compare?
The 8 suburbs sit close together, Hampton East at the top.
Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.
- Hampton EastLed by Mandarin20%920
- HighettLed by Mandarin20%2,502
- Brighton EastLed by Mandarin19%3,241
- Brighton (Vic.)Led by Mandarin15%3,283
- Hampton (Vic.)Led by Mandarin13%1,753
- Sandringham (Vic.)Led by Mandarin11%1,196
- Black Rock (Vic.)Led by Greek11%662
- Beaumaris (Vic.)Led by Mandarin10%1,327
- 8 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Where were Bayside's residents born?
Among residents born overseas, England leads.
Country of birth
24.9% born overseas, across 123 countries.
- 01England6,103+4.1%
- 02China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)2,525+37.8%
- 03New Zealand1,703-6.0%
- 04South Africa1,391+17.7%
- 05India1,010+27.7%
- 06United States of America8240%
- 07Scotland792+5.9%
- 08Germany7430%
- 09Italy684-6.7%
- 10Greece666-5.9%
Religious affiliation
Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity45,380-6.1%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs44,981+28.3%
- 03Judaism3,061+14.4%
- 04Buddhism1,259+4.2%
- 05Hinduism782+52.4%
- 06Islam688+49.6%
Where does Bayside sit on the map of Australia's languages?
Darker shading means more residents speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home. ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries. Open the national map.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
Other sources sometimes quote 18.4% for Bayside. That figure treats the 3,666 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 14.8%, and 15.3% is the share among those who answered.
Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.
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