15.2% ▲ +27.4%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Aranda · Suburb / Locality
Language in Aranda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Aranda, where 81.4% of people use it as their only tongue at home. While a small number of residents speak other languages, the area is much more linguistically uniform than the typical Australian suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the ACT and national figures. English is most common, followed by Mandarin at 3.8%, while only 1.4% of residents speak little or no English.
1.4% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Aranda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80020/aranda/topic/language