2.9% ▲ +99.8%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bowes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bowes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Bowes have shifted their language use since 2011, with the vast majority still speaking only English. This is a linguistically uniform area where 88.5% of residents use only English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.9% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, no one in the community speaks little or no English.
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 Bowes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50165/bowes/topic/language