2.5% ▲ —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bookaar · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle of similar areas for language diversity, Bookaar is a place where most residents speak only English. While 2.5% of people use a language other than English at home, this is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 91.2% of the population, with Arabic spoken by 2.5%. Notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the national figure.
2.5% ▲ —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bookaar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20285/bookaar/topic/language