7.0% ▲ +28.1%
Lower than 71% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Capital Region · Region (SA4)
Language in Capital Region
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 7.0% of people in the Capital Region use a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making the region much less linguistically diverse than most of the country. While this number has risen slightly since 2011, the area remains overwhelmingly English-speaking.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 86.4% of residents, with very few people speaking Punjabi, Italian, Mandarin or Arabic. This helps explain why the 0.7% of people who speak little or no English is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.7% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 76% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Capital Region [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/101/capital-region/topic/language