38.5% ▲ +52.4%
Higher than 84% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bradfield · Federal Electorate
Language in Bradfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A 13 percentage point rise in non-English speaking homes since 2011 shows that Bradfield is becoming much more linguistically diverse. Now, 38.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 58.6% of residents, while Mandarin (13.6%) and Cantonese (6.0%) are the most common other languages. This diversity is reflected in the 5.9% of people who speak little or no English, which is a little above the New South Wales figure.
5.9% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Bradfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED106/bradfield/topic/language