44.4% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bonner · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bonner
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people in Bonner now speak a language other than English at home compared to 2011. This shift has made the area much more linguistically diverse than most other similar places, with 44.4% of residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 51.4% of residents, Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin, and Arabic are also commonly spoken. This diversity is reflected in the 4.1% who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the ACT average.
4.1% ▼ -15.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Bonner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80025/bonner/topic/language