8.4% ▲ +20.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Boulder · Suburb / Locality
Language in Boulder
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Boulder, where 74.9% of residents speak only one language. While more people here use a second language at home than in most similar areas, the 8.4% figure is far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.7% speak little or no English. This is a little below the national figure, with Tagalog being the most common non-English language spoken in the area.
0.7% ▲ +78.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Boulder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50159/boulder/topic/language