18.5% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Leichhardt · Federal Electorate
Language in Leichhardt
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of over 5 percentage points separates Leichhardt from the state average in language diversity. While 18.5% of people here speak another language at home, this is well above the Queensland figure but still well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 71.7% of residents. The proportion of people using another language at home rose to 18.5% since 2011, while those who speak little or no English stayed steady at 2.4%.
2.4% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 59% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Leichhardt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED318/leichhardt/topic/language