3.0% ▲ +68.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Roelands · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 92.6% of people in Roelands, making it a very linguistically uniform area. This is far more common than in the rest of the state or nation, where a much higher share of people use another language at home.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.0% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While a tiny number of people speak little or no English (0.3%), this is actually higher than in most similar areas.
3.0% ▲ +68.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.3% ▲ —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Roelands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51307/roelands/topic/language