51.0% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.5%
- 2016: 47.2%
- 2021: 51.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Busby · Suburb / Locality
Language in Busby
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Busby now speak a language other than English at home. This reflects a strong trend toward linguistic diversity in the area, with 51% of residents using a non-English language, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common second language here at 22%, followed by Vietnamese at 9.6%. Because of this diversity, 11.9% of people speak little or no English, which is well above the 3.4% national figure.
11.9% ▲ +18.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 11.9%
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 Busby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10718/busby/topic/language