4.9% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boorara Brook · Suburb / Locality
Language in Boorara Brook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Boorara Brook compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.9% of residents use another language at home, which is much lower than the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area less linguistically diverse than most Australian regions.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 86% of the area, though some residents speak Cantonese or Mandarin. Despite being higher than most similar areas, 0% of people here speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Boorara Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50151/boorara-brook/topic/language