15.7% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Weston Creek · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Weston Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Weston Creek have used a language other than English at home since 2011, with the figure rising 3.4 percentage points to 15.7%. Despite this growth, the area remains less linguistically diverse than the rest of the territory.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.8% of residents. The 15.7% who speak another language at home is well below the ACT's 24.6%, while the 1.6% who speak little or no English is about the same as the territory average.
1.6% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 55% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Weston Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/80108/weston-creek/topic/language