28.4% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bondi Junction · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bondi Junction
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 6.1 percentage points exists between Bondi Junction and the national figure for people using another language at home. This reflects a highly diverse area where 28.4% of residents speak a language other than English, a figure that is among the highest for similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the only language spoken by 64.2% of residents, others include Mandarin (3.7%), Italian (1.7%), and Cantonese (1.2%). Only 2.6% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.6% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Bondi Junction [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10465/bondi-junction/topic/language