18.9% ▲ +53.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Weston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Weston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 77.6% of people in Weston. While this is a high proportion, nearly one in five residents speaks another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.9% of people use a language other than English at home, though this is well below the figures for the ACT and Australia. Only 1.6% speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the ACT average.
1.6% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 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 Weston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80133/weston/topic/language