1.6% ▼ -90.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rainbow Flat · Urban Centre
Language in Rainbow Flat
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the overwhelming language of daily life in Rainbow Flat, where only 1.6% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, reflecting a community that is much less linguistically diverse than most other areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Almost everyone here speaks only English, with 94.8% of residents using it at home. The proportion of people using another language has fallen 15 points since 2011, and no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Rainbow Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122113/rainbow-flat/topic/language