2.8% ▼ -49.7%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Upper Capel · Suburb / Locality
Language in Upper Capel
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Upper Capel, where 92.1% of residents speak only English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than the rest of the state or country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Despite this, 1.7% of the population speaks little or no English, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas.
1.7% ▲ —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Upper Capel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51480/upper-capel/topic/language