15.8% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Holder · Suburb / Locality
Language in Holder
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 80.8% of people in Holder. While most residents speak only English, about 15.8% use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This makes the community more linguistically diverse than nearby suburbs, though it remains less so than the wider territory.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well below the 24.6% figure for the ACT. This includes small numbers of people speaking Mandarin, Vietnamese, Italian and Cantonese. Only 1.8% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average.
1.8% ▼ -15.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Holder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80074/holder/topic/language