2.4% ▲ +35.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brooloo · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Brooloo, where very few people use a different tongue at home. Only 2.4% of the population speaks a language other than English, which is far below the national figure.
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 87.8% of residents, while Tagalog is the most common other language at 1.1%. Only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.4% ▲ +35.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.8% ▲ —
Higher than 74% 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 Brooloo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30391/brooloo/topic/language