17.7% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Farrer · Suburb / Locality
Language in Farrer
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Farrer, though 17.7% of people now use another language at home. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it is still well below the figures for both the ACT and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 78.2% of the community, with smaller groups speaking Mandarin, Hindi, Greek and Arabic. Very few people struggle with English, as only 1.5% speak little or no English, which is about the same as the ACT average.
1.5% ▼ -9.9%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Farrer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80052/farrer/topic/language