42.5% ▲ +40.8%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Harrison · Suburb / Locality
Language in Harrison
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Harrison speak a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the territory. About 42.5% of residents use another language, which is far above the Australian Capital Territory's figure of 24.6%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 8.3%, followed by Cantonese, Vietnamese and Hindi. Because of this diversity, 5.6% of people speak little or no English, a figure well above the 2.5% seen across the territory.
5.6% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Harrison [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80071/harrison/topic/language