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Canberra City, Canberra

Languages spoken in Canberra City

At the 2021 Census, 20 per cent of residents in Canberra City, a suburb of Canberra, spoke Chinese at home. The next largest is Korean. Canberra has a lower share than Canberra City. Residents born overseas most often come from China.

Residents
4,759
Speak another language
36.8%-0.5%
Languages spoken
40
Born overseas
41.8%

How large is Canberra City's Chinese-speaking community?

Chinese at home

20%

Mandarin is the larger variety here.

What's spoken in Canberra City besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    834-14.6%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    133-26.1%
  3. 03
    Korean
    97+26.0%
  4. 04
    Hindi
    61+15.1%
  5. 05
    Spanish
    59+111%
  6. 06
    Arabic
    40+29.0%
  7. 07
    Tamil
    39+129%
  8. 08
    French
    36+63.6%
  9. 09
    Vietnamese
    36+80.0%
  10. 10
    Thai
    35+29.6%

Where does Canberra City sit against Australia as a whole?

Australia as a whole has a lower share than Canberra City.

Canberra City
36.8%
Canberra
23.3%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Where were Canberra City's residents born?

Among residents born overseas, China leads.

  1. 01
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    771-17.1%
  2. 02
    India
    165+94.1%
  3. 03
    England
    104+4.0%
  4. 04
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    830%
  5. 05
    Malaysia
    80-23.8%
  6. 06
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    72-22.6%
  7. 07
    New Zealand
    66+43.5%
  8. 08
    United States of America
    50-5.7%
  9. 09
    Thailand
    41+32.3%
  10. 10
    Philippines
    31+19.2%

What's Canberra City's religious mix?

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    2,726+20.3%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    9670%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    166-9.3%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    157+112%
  5. 05
    Islam
    97-11.0%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    14+250%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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