18.2% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hawker · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hawker
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Hawker now speak a language other than English at home. While 18.2% of residents use another language, this is much higher than in most similar areas, even though it remains well below the figures for both the ACT and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 78.4% of residents, followed by small groups speaking Vietnamese, Mandarin, Greek, and Italian. Only 1.9% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure but much higher than in most similar areas.
1.9% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Hawker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80072/hawker/topic/language