26.9% ▲ +33.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mont Albert · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Mont Albert speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. Around 26.9% of residents use another language, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This linguistic diversity is reflected in the variety of languages spoken across the suburb.
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 11.8%, followed by Cantonese at 3.4%. While 26.9% of people use another language, a small group of 4.7% speak little or no English, which is a little above the Australian average.
26.9% ▲ +33.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
4.7% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Mont Albert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21732/mont-albert/topic/language