17.0% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Higgins · Suburb / Locality
Language in Higgins
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Less than one in five people in Higgins speak a language other than English at home, a figure well below the national and state averages. While this is much higher than most similar areas, the suburb remains overwhelmingly English-speaking. Most residents use English as their only language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17% of people use another language at home, with Vietnamese being the most common at 1.9%. Despite this, only 2.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the figures for the ACT and Australia.
2.6% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Higgins [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80073/higgins/topic/language