17.2% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
O'Connor · Suburb / Locality
Language in O'Connor
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in O'Connor than in most similar areas. While 17.2% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the figures for both the ACT and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 80% of the community. Mandarin is the most common second language at 2%, and very few people—just 1.5%—speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
1.5% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 O'Connor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80102/o-connor/topic/language