15.0% ▲ +26.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fadden · Suburb / Locality
Language in Fadden
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Fadden, where 83.2% of people speak only English at home. While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, this figure is still well below both the ACT and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.0% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Arabic (2.1%) and Mandarin (1.5%) being the most common. Only 1.2% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for the ACT and Australia.
1.2% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Fadden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80051/fadden/topic/language