12.4% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Towradgi · Suburb / Locality
Language in Towradgi
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of nearly 10 percentage points separates Towradgi from the national average for language diversity. While 12.4% of people here speak a language other than English at home, this is well below the Australian figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 83.4% of residents, though Italian is the most common other language at 3.3%. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains a little below the national figure at 2.0%.
2.0% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Towradgi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13947/towradgi/topic/language