30.6% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Isaacs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Isaacs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 30% of people in Isaacs now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 30.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the figures for the ACT and Australia. While English is the most common language at 66.3%, other common languages include Mandarin, Cantonese and Hindi.
2.6% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 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).
More for Isaacs
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Isaacs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80078/isaacs/topic/language