16.8% ▲ +29.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kingston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kingston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 73.8% of residents in Kingston. While more people here speak a second language than in most similar areas, the proportion is still well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 16.8% of people use a language other than English at home, with Mandarin being the most common non-English tongue at 2%. Despite this, only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the ACT average.
0.9% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Kingston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80083/kingston/topic/language