37.9% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 44.3%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
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Language in City
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of the people in City speak only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than most. About 37.9% of residents use another language, which is a much higher figure than across the ACT or the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 17.3%, followed by Cantonese at 2.6%. While language use is diverse, only 2.2% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the ACT average.
2.2% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80038/city/topic/language