3.5% ▲ +45.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
The Leap · Suburb / Locality
Language in The Leap
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by the vast majority of people in The Leap, with 88% of residents using only this language at home. This is a very high proportion compared to the national average, making the area far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, 0.8% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is much higher than in most similar areas.
0.8% ▲ +61.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 The Leap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32797/the-leap/topic/language