4.1% ▲ +73.1%
Lower than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burke · Council (LGA)
Language in Burke
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way people communicate in Burke, where very few residents use another language. Only 4.1% of people speak a language other than English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the share of people using another language at home rose to 4.1% since 2011, this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. English is spoken by 75.2% of the population, and no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Burke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA31950/burke/topic/language