28.7% ▲ +32.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Garran · Suburb / Locality
Language in Garran
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Garran now use a language other than English at home than in previous censuses. Nearly 29% of residents speak another language, making the area much more linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 28.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is used by 66.8% of residents, Mandarin is the most common second language at 3.0%, followed by Hindi at 1.4%. Despite this diversity, those who speak little or no English make up just 2.0% of the population.
2.0% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Garran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80061/garran/topic/language