24.1% ▲ +35.0%
Higher than 92% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Canberra - Queanbeyan · Urban Area
Language in Canberra - Queanbeyan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 71.7% of people in Canberra - Queanbeyan. This area is more linguistically diverse than the national average, with nearly a quarter of the population speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.1% of people here use another language at home, a figure that rose 6.2 points since 2011. Common non-English languages include Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Hindi, though the proportion of people who speak little or no English is much higher than most areas at 2.4%.
2.4% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Canberra - Queanbeyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/8001/canberra-queanbeyan/topic/language