5.3% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Douglas Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Douglas Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Douglas Park, spoken exclusively by 89.4% of residents. While most people here only use English, a small number of households speak other languages, making it slightly more diverse than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.3% of people use another language at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 0.2% of residents speak little or no English, a figure well below the 3.4% average across Australia.
0.2% ▼ -67.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Douglas Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11285/douglas-park/topic/language