4.8% ▲ +47.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Evanston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Evanston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 89.1% of people in Evanston. While more residents use other languages at home than in most similar areas, the figure remains far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.8% of people speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the 22.3% national figure. Just 0.6% of the population speak little or no English, a result that is a little below the Australian average.
0.6% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Evanston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40421/evanston/topic/language