4.4% ▲ +45.4%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Goomboorian · Suburb / Locality
Language in Goomboorian
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Goomboorian compared to the rest of the country. English is the dominant tongue here, with only 4.4% of residents using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While only 4.4% use another language at home—which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%—the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas. English is used by 88.5% of the community, followed by small numbers of Mandarin and Punjabi speakers.
0.7% ▲ —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Goomboorian [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31194/goomboorian/topic/language