5.7% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Girards Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Girards Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Girards Hill compared to the rest of the country. While 5.7% of residents use another language at home, this is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English, and very few struggle with the language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.2% of people speak only English at home, though Punjabi is the most common second language at 1.0%. Only 0.5% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.5% ▼ -45.5%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Girards Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11635/girards-hill/topic/language