26.5% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beaconsfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Beaconsfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Beaconsfield now speak a language other than English at home. This shift means 26.5% of the population uses another language, a figure that is well above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 70.5% speak only English, Cantonese and Mandarin are the most common other languages. Around 1.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas.
1.9% ▼ -53.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Beaconsfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10239/beaconsfield/topic/language