2.2% ▼ -52.1%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Giru · Urban Centre
Language in Giru
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Giru, with only 2.2% of residents using another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia, where nearly a quarter of the population speaks a different language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here use a language other than English, a figure that fell from 4.6% in 2011 to 2.2% in 2021. This trend is reflected in the fact that nobody in the area speaks 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 Giru [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322049/giru/topic/language