14.0% ▲ +33.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kambah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kambah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for most people in Kambah, where 82.3% only speak it at home. While many residents use a single language, about 14% of the community speaks another language, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using another language is far below the ACT figure of 24.6%. However, the 1.6% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas, though this is about the same as the territory average.
1.6% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Kambah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80082/kambah/topic/language