8.5% ▲ +112.9%
Lower than 70% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Franklin · Federal Electorate
Language in Franklin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Franklin compared to the national figure. While 8.5% of residents use another language at home, this is 14 percentage points below the Australian average. The area remains overwhelmingly English-speaking, though the use of other languages has grown since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.9% of residents, and the number of people using another language at home rose 4.5 points since 2011. Only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much lower than most areas and barely changed since 2016.
0.8% ▲ +44.8%
Lower than 78% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Franklin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED604/franklin/topic/language