1.1% ▲ +168.8%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bowning · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bowning
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone living in Bowning. Only 1.1% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 91.1% of people speak only English at home. While 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is higher than in most similar areas, this remains well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Bowning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10533/bowning/topic/language