23.1% ▲ +40.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Birmingham Gardens · Suburb / Locality
Language in Birmingham Gardens
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 70.1% of people in Birmingham Gardens. While most residents speak English, the area is much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with nearly a quarter of the population using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is about the same as the national figure. Mandarin is the most common second language at 4.9%, and 4.7% of residents speak little or no English, a rate that is among the highest for areas of this size.
4.7% ▼ -22.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Birmingham Gardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10376/birmingham-gardens/topic/language