50.5% ▲ +57.8%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 50.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Buckland Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Buckland Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Buckland Park use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region. This high level of diversity is reflected in the fact that only 48.5% of residents speak English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 50.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the 22.3% national figure. This is seen in the variety of languages spoken, with Vietnamese (18.2%) and Greek (9.1%) being common, while 14.1% of people speak little or no English.
14.1% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 14.1%
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 Buckland Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40178/buckland-park/topic/language