8.8% ▲ +243.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bushy Park · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Bushy Park compared to the national figure. While 8.8% of residents use another language at home, this is still 13 percentage points below the Australian average. Most of the community relies on English as their primary tongue.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 82.3% of the area. Although 8.8% of people use another language at home—which is much higher than most similar areas—no one here speaks little or no English.
8.8% ▲ +243.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Bushy Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60086/bushy-park/topic/language