3.8% ▲ +17.3%
Lower than 93% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bounded Locality · Section of State
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very little has changed in the way people speak at home in Bounded Locality since 2011. English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of the population, with only 3.8% of residents using another language.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 89.3% of people at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3% for other languages. Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.4% speak little or no English, a figure that has stayed steady since 2016.
3.8% ▲ +17.3%
Lower than 93% of section of state areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▲ +16.4%
Lower than 83% of section of state areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bounded Locality [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS22/bounded-locality/topic/language