14.8% ▲ +759.4%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Estella · Urban Centre
Language in Estella
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive jump in linguistic diversity has occurred in Estella, where the share of people using another language at home rose by 13 percentage points since 2011. While 14.8% of residents now speak a language other than English, this remains well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.6% of the area, though Mandarin, Arabic, Punjabi and Hindi are also spoken. Despite being much higher than most similar areas, the 1.7% of people who speak little or no English is still a little below the Australian average.
1.7% ▲ +287.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Estella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114009/estella/topic/language