13.0% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Allambie Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Allambie Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Allambie Heights compared to the rest of the country. While 13% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most of the area speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 84.8% of people, though small numbers speak Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese and Greek. Only 1.7% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian average.
1.7% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Allambie Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10036/allambie-heights/topic/language