57.0% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 98% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 54.1%
- 2016: 59.1%
- 2021: 57.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barton · Federal Electorate
Language in Barton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Barton have used a language other than English at home since 2011, with the figure rising to 57.0%. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and country, where fewer than 30% of people do the same.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 57.0% of people speak another language at home, which is far above the national figure. While English is the most common at 37.1%, other common languages include Mandarin, Greek, and Arabic. A higher number of people here speak little or no English (10.6%) compared to the state average, though this fell slightly since 2016.
10.6% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 95% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 10.6%
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 Barton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED102/barton/topic/language