18.0% ▲ +35.1%
Higher than 56% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boothby · Federal Electorate
Language in Boothby
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as other similar areas, Boothby sees 18.0% of its residents using a language other than English at home. This figure has risen by 4.7 percentage points since 2011, though the area remains less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While most people speak only English (79.0%), Mandarin is the most common second language at 2.7%. Very few residents—just 2.1%—speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016 and is a little below the national level.
2.1% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 55% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Boothby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED403/boothby/topic/language