6.1% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Booval · Suburb / Locality
Language in Booval
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 85% of Booval residents. While a small number of people speak other languages at home, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Very few residents speak little or no English, at just 0.9%.
0.9% ▲ +35.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Booval [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30332/booval/topic/language