27.5% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Alfords Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Alfords Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 70.9% of residents in Alfords Point. It is a linguistically diverse area where 27.5% of people speak another language at home, a figure well above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While most people speak English, Greek (6.2%) and Arabic (5.8%) are the next most common languages. Only 2.8% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the New South Wales figure.
2.8% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Alfords Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10031/alfords-point/topic/language