5.9% ▲ +63.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cambridge · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cambridge
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Cambridge, though the variety of languages spoken at home has shifted over the last decade. While 90.2% of residents speak only English, a small but growing number of people now use other languages in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas. This is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%, and the most common non-English languages are Mandarin, Punjabi, and Italian.
0.6% ▼ -20.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Cambridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60090/cambridge/topic/language