City of Bayside
Language used at home
In the City of Bayside, 15.4384 of people used a language other than English at home in 2021.
The City of Bayside's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
The City of Bayside's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
Total population
| Language used at home - Summary | ||||||||
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| City of Bayside - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Ivison Ward % | Number | % | Ivison Ward % | 2011 to 2021 | |
| Speaks English only | 82,132 | 81.1 | 75.9 | 36500 | 75,685 | 82.4 | 76.2 | +6,447 |
 Non-English total | 15,640 | 15.4 | 20.5 | 36501 | 12,158 | 13.2 | 19.3 | +3,482 |
| Not stated | 3,534 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 36502 | 3,973 | 4.3 | 4.5 | -439 |
| Total Population | 101,306 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 91,816 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +9,490 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2011 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| City of Bayside - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | Ivison Ward % | Number | % | Ivison Ward % | 2011 to 2021 | |
| Mandarin | 2,853 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 36007 | 960 | 1.0 | 1.4 | +1,893 |
| Greek | 2,013 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 36015 | 2,047 | 2.2 | 3.7 | -34 |
| Russian | 1,310 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 36030 | 1,195 | 1.3 | 2.3 | +115 |
| Italian | 1,023 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 36022 | 1,211 | 1.3 | 1.2 | -188 |
| Spanish | 694 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 36034 | 343 | 0.4 | 0.5 | +351 |
| German | 660 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 36014 | 788 | 0.9 | 0.6 | -128 |
| French | 549 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 36013 | 549 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0 |
| Cantonese | 475 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 36006 | 406 | 0.4 | 0.6 | +69 |
| Polish | 424 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 36028 | 463 | 0.5 | 1.0 | -39 |
| Arabic | 346 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 36004 | 311 | 0.3 | 0.7 | +35 |
| Japanese | 336 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36023 | 370 | 0.4 | 0.4 | -34 |
| Hindi | 323 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 36016 | 204 | 0.2 | 0.5 | +119 |
| Vietnamese | 258 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36037 | 128 | 0.1 | 0.4 | +130 |
| Hebrew | 248 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36066 | 260 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -12 |
| Turkish | 245 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 36036 | 162 | 0.2 | 0.5 | +83 |
| Portuguese | 237 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 36029 | 107 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +130 |
| Dutch | 232 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 36010 | 207 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +25 |
| Serbian | 225 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 36032 | 171 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +54 |
| Persian | 189 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 36019 | 58 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +131 |
| Afrikaans | 183 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36044 | 157 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +26 |
| Croatian | 169 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36009 | 167 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +2 |
| Thai | 138 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36102 | 85 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +53 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 137 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 36011 | 71 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +66 |
| Indonesian | 133 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36018 | 71 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +62 |
| Swedish | 129 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36097 | 121 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +8 |
| Hungarian | 103 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36017 | 143 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -40 |
| Korean | 100 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36025 | 77 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +23 |
| Punjabi | 97 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36088 | 80 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +17 |
| Sinhalese | 93 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36033 | 66 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +27 |
| Tamil | 91 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36035 | 66 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +25 |
| Macedonian | 88 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36026 | 60 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +28 |
| Romanian | 79 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36089 | 55 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +24 |
| Czech | 78 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36056 | 67 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +11 |
| Yiddish | 70 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36111 | 49 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +21 |
| Gujarati | 61 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36064 | 22 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +39 |
| Danish | 59 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36057 | 47 | 0.1 | 0.0 | +12 |
| Albanian | 56 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 36045 | 25 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +31 |
| Bosnian | 53 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36051 | 45 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +8 |
| Nepali | 44 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36081 | 11 | 0.0 | -- | +33 |
| Telugu | 43 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36099 | 10 | 0.0 | -- | +33 |
| Ukrainian | 41 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36107 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +12 |
| Urdu | 40 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36108 | 14 | 0.0 | -- | +26 |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 34 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36068 | 32 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +2 |
| Chinese, nfd | 32 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36055 | 76 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -44 |
| Slovak | 32 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36092 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +22 |
| Malayalam | 31 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36077 | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +4 |
| Khmer | 31 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36024 | 24 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +7 |
| Finnish | 29 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36063 | 32 | 0.0 | -- | -3 |
| Latvian | 28 | 0.0 | -- | 36075 | 39 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -11 |
| Malay | 28 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36076 | 10 | 0.0 | -- | +18 |
| Bengali | 28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36050 | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +4 |
| Armenian | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36047 | 15 | 0.0 | -- | +12 |
| Maltese | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36027 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -5 |
| Lithuanian | 22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36115 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wu | 21 | 0.0 | -- | 36110 | 9 | 0.0 | -- | +12 |
| Auslan | 21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36049 | 20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +1 |
| Marathi | 20 | 0.0 | -- | 36080 | 8 | 0.0 | -- | +12 |
| Kannada | 18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36071 | 0 | -- | -- | +18 |
| Bulgarian | 17 | 0.0 | -- | 36052 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +11 |
| Amharic | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36046 | 8 | 0.0 | -- | +9 |
| Māori (New Zealand) | 15 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36079 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +9 |
| Norwegian | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36083 | 15 | 0.0 | -- | -1 |
| Hakka | 14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36065 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | +11 |
| Shona | 14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36091 | 0 | -- | -- | +14 |
| Australian Indigenous Languages | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36005 | 0 | -- | -- | +14 |
| Slovene | 12 | 0.0 | -- | 36093 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -2 |
| Assyrian/Aramaic | 10 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36048 | 3 | 0.0 | -- | +7 |
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Excludes languages spoken at home by fewer than 10 people.
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of the City of Bayside in 2021 compared to Ivison Ward shows that there was a larger proportion of people who used English only, and a smaller proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 81.1% of the population used English only, and 15.4 used a non-English language, compared with 75.9% and 20.5% respectively for Ivison Ward.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in the City of Bayside was Mandarin, with 2.8% of the population, or 2,853 people using this language at home.
There were no major differences between City of Bayside and Ivison Ward in 2021.
Emerging groups
Between 2011 and 2021, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 3,482 or 28.6%, and the number of people who used English only increased by 6,447 or 8.5%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in the City of Bayside between 2011 and 2021 were for those using:
- Mandarin (+1,893 persons)
- Spanish (+351 persons)
- Italian (-188 persons)
- Persian (+131 persons)