12.2% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bowman Farm · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher share of people speak a language other than English at home in Bowman Farm compared to similar areas. While 12.2% of residents use another language, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 97.6% of the area. Despite more people using other languages than in similar places, no one in Bowman Farm speaks little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
12.2% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bowman Farm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10530/bowman-farm/topic/language