21.5% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bonython · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bonython
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Bonython speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area's linguistic profile much more diverse than most similar places, though it remains about the same as the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 21.5% of residents use a language other than English, with Arabic, Vietnamese, and Mandarin being the most common non-English tongues. This diversity is reflected in the 2.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.5% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Bonython [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80026/bonython/topic/language