17.0% ▲ +80.3%
Higher than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fig Tree Pocket · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Fig Tree Pocket
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Fig Tree Pocket, spoken exclusively by 81.1% of the population. While the area is much less linguistically diverse than the national average, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen steadily to 17.0%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The use of other languages has grown by 7.6 percentage points since 2011, though the 17.0% figure remains well below the Australian average. This is reflected in the breakdown, where Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 3.3%, and very few people (1.3%) speak little or no English.
1.3% ▲ +73.8%
Lower than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Fig Tree Pocket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/304021089/fig-tree-pocket/topic/language