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Rainbow Flat · Suburb / Locality

Language in Rainbow Flat

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the primary way people communicate in Rainbow Flat, with only 1.9% of residents using another language at home. This is far below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia, making the area much more linguistically uniform than most other places.

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📍 Rainbow Flat, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Almost everyone here speaks English only, accounting for 93.9% of the population. While a small number of people speak Greek, Mandarin or Italian, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is 0.0%, which is well below the national figure.

People using another language at home

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1.9% ▼ -40.7%

Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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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.

Language used at home

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In Rainbow Flat, English only is the majority at 98%; Greek is next at 1%.

English only 93.9% Greek 0.7% Mandarin 0.4% Italian 0.4%

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 Rainbow Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13318/rainbow-flat/topic/language