17.0% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yarralumla · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yarralumla
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Diverse conversations fill the streets of Yarralumla, where 17% of people speak a language other than English at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (79.3%), though Mandarin, Italian, and Hindi are also heard. Only 1% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
1.0% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Yarralumla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80136/yarralumla/topic/language