20.2% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Isabella Plains · Suburb / Locality
Language in Isabella Plains
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Roughly one in five people in Isabella Plains use a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains a little below the national figure. The community is predominantly English-speaking, but a diverse range of other languages is spoken across the suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.2% of residents speak another language at home, which is well below the ACT average of 24.6%. English is the most common language at 76.9%, followed by Arabic, Punjabi, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. Only 2.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the rest of the territory.
2.3% ▼ -12.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Isabella Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80079/isabella-plains/topic/language