54.0% ▲ +1962.8%
Higher than 95% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 52.4%
- 2021: 54.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Reid · Federal Electorate
Language in Reid
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 51 percentage point jump in language diversity since 2011 defines Reid, where more than half of the population now speaks a language other than English at home. This shift has made the area far more linguistically diverse than both the state and the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Over half the people in Reid use a language other than English at home, with Mandarin (13%), Cantonese (5.8%), and Italian (3.3%) being common choices. This is far above the national figure, and about 10.1% of residents speak little or no English.
10.1% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 94% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 10.1%
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 Reid [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED137/reid/topic/language