36.8% —
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yerrabi · State Electorate
Language in Yerrabi
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of people in Yerrabi now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen 6.0 percentage points since 2016. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the territory and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 59.7% of residents speak only English, 36.8% use another language, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. Mandarin is the most common second language at 5.4%, and 4.3% of people speak little or no English.
4.3% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Yerrabi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED80005/yerrabi/topic/language