5.0% ▲ +285.0%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brookton · Council (LGA)
Language in Brookton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A rise in the use of non-English languages has seen Brookton's figures climb by 3.7 percentage points since 2011. While English remains the dominant tongue for 84.5% of the area, a small but growing number of residents now speak a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.0% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. At the same time, the 0.9% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ +109.9%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Brookton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA50910/brookton/topic/language