16.8% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Barton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Barton compared to the rest of the territory. While 16.8% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English, making it less linguistically diverse than nearby areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 71.1% of residents, with Mandarin (2.7%) and Greek (1.5%) being the next most common. Only 0.7% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.7% ▼ -50.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 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 Barton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80022/barton/topic/language