24.0% ▲ +28.9%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ginninderra · State Electorate
Language in Ginninderra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
One in four people in Ginninderra speaks a language other than English at home, making it more linguistically diverse than most areas. This reflects a steady increase in the use of different languages, which has risen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24% of residents use another language at home, which is a little above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is the main language for 72.3% of people, Mandarin is the most common second language at 3.4%. Meanwhile, only 2.6% of the population speaks little or no English.
2.6% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Ginninderra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED80002/ginninderra/topic/language