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Greater Bendigo, Victoria

Languages spoken in Greater Bendigo

Karen is the most common language after English in Greater Bendigo, where about 7,000 people speak something else at home, according to the 2021 Census. The one-in-100 mark is passed by only one language. Greater Bendigo's share is well under the national share.

Residents
120,821
Speak another language
6,991
Languages at home
105
Change since 2016
+70.7%

Which communities in Greater Bendigo are largest?

After English, Karen comes first.

Karen

1,638 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has grown by about three quarters.

Mandarin

553 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Malayalam

487 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

What are the five most spoken languages other than English in Greater Bendigo?

Karen is the one moving fastest: it has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

Top five by speakers at home, each with its movement on 2016. Show more to see the rest.

  1. 01
    Karen
    1,638+90.0%
  2. 02
    Mandarin
    553+18.9%
  3. 03
    Malayalam
    487+156%
  4. 04
    Punjabi
    455+145%
  5. 05
    Tagalog
    239+112%

How does Greater Bendigo's share measure up to Victoria?

The share for Victoria is more than twice as high as Greater Bendigo's. 39 councils in Victoria have a lower share.

Greater Bendigo
5.8%
Victoria
26.6%
Australia
21.3%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

Greater Bendigo's place on the diversity index.

How does the share change across Greater Bendigo's suburbs?

From Jackass Flat down to Axedale, the gap is modest.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

Which countries are Greater Bendigo's overseas-born residents from?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from England.

Country of birth

8.1% born overseas, across 94 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    2,102+9.2%
  2. 02
    India
    1,232+76.5%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    857+27.2%
  4. 04
    Myanmar
    802+99.5%
  5. 05
    Thailand
    729+96.0%
  6. 06
    Philippines
    658+70.5%
  7. 07
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    325+12.8%
  8. 08
    Sri Lanka
    261+45.0%
  9. 09
    Scotland
    242+1.3%
  10. 10
    Malaysia
    219+149%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    57,350+42.5%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    51,770-9.3%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    1,402+40.3%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    798+63.5%
  5. 05
    Islam
    712+78.4%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    26+23.8%

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

A note on method: 6,954 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 5.8% sits below the 11.5% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 6.1% measured across respondents only.

Figures for Greater Bendigo itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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