15.4% ▲ +23.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Latham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Latham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Latham compared to the rest of the territory. While 15.4% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the Australian Capital Territory's 24.6%. Most people here speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 80.2% of the community, with Mandarin and Vietnamese being the next most common languages. Despite the low overall rate of non-English speakers, 1.8% of residents speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.8% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 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 Latham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80084/latham/topic/language