14.9% —
Higher than 55% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Alkimos - Eglinton · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Alkimos - Eglinton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Alkimos - Eglinton, where 80.7% of people speak only English at home. While more people have started using other languages in recent years, the area remains much less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.9% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that rose 2.7 percentage points since 2016 but remains well below the national average of 22.3%. The most common non-English languages include Punjabi, Tagalog and Mandarin, though only 1.0% of residents speak little or no English.
1.0% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Alkimos - Eglinton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/505031255/alkimos-eglinton/topic/language