Popular

NAATI certified translationTranslation servicesMulticultural communicationLanguagesLanguage MapContact

Jacka, Canberra

Languages spoken in Jacka

The 2021 Census counted 48 per cent of residents in Jacka speaking another language at home, across 33 languages led by Punjabi. The next largest is Hindi. Canberra has a lower share than Jacka. Residents speak 33 languages between them.

Residents
679
Speak another language
48.3%+18.8%
Languages spoken
33
Born overseas
43.5%

How do Jacka's languages rank?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Punjabi
    48+26.3%
  2. 02
    Hindi
    30-11.8%
  3. 03
    Nepali
    25+317%
  4. 04
    Gujarati
    20+17.6%
  5. 05
    Urdu
    20+66.7%
  6. 06
    Mandarin
    19-5.0%
  7. 07
    Korean
    15+50.0%
  8. 08
    Tongan
    14+250%
  9. 09
    Mon
    10
  10. 10
    Telugu
    10-44.4%

How spread out are Jacka's languages?

Punjabi leads with one in 14 residents. There are 15 languages with a share of one in 100 or more.

Where were Jacka's residents born?

India is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    India
    102+8.5%
  2. 02
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    21+23.5%
  3. 03
    Nepal
    21+250%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    19
  5. 05
    South Africa
    15+7.1%
  6. 06
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    10+42.9%
  7. 07
    Myanmar
    10+150%
  8. 08
    Pakistan
    10+66.7%
  9. 09
    New Zealand
    8+14.3%
  10. 10
    Afghanistan
    7-30.0%

Is Jacka more multilingual than Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is more than twice the figure for Australia as a whole.

Jacka
48.3%
Canberra
23.3%
Australia
21.3%

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

What's Jacka's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    218+5.8%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    212-11.7%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    105+15.4%
  4. 04
    Islam
    62+31.9%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    32+60.0%

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

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

Jacka is part of Canberra, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.