18.7% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Reid · Suburb / Locality
Language in Reid
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Reid use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 18.7% of residents speak another language, this is well below the figures for both the ACT and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English (74.1%), though Mandarin is the most common second language at 2%. Only 2.1% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the ACT figure.
2.1% ▼ -38.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Reid [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80113/reid/topic/language