7.8% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
South Bunbury · Suburb / Locality
Language in South Bunbury
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in South Bunbury, where only 7.8% of residents use another language at home. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English (87.2%), with small numbers speaking Italian, Mandarin, Punjabi or Arabic. Very few residents, just 0.7%, speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.7% ▼ -36.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 South Bunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51363/south-bunbury/topic/language