6.0% ▲ +55.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ferny Hills · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ferny Hills
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Ferny Hills compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, that figure is just 6.0% in this area. This makes Ferny Hills much more linguistically uniform than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.7% of residents. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -18.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Ferny Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31033/ferny-hills/topic/language