37.5% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Girrawheen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Girrawheen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of Girrawheen residents speak only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state. Around 37.5% of people use a language other than English, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it one of the most multilingual areas at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Alongside a strong Vietnamese presence at 8.6%, about 10.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% national average. Other common languages include Arabic, Tagalog and Italian.
10.4% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 Girrawheen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50550/girrawheen/topic/language