6.0% ▲ +131.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Alberton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Alberton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.6% of residents in Alberton. While more people here use another language at home than in most similar areas, the community remains far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.0% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Meanwhile, the 0.9% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ +34.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Alberton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30022/alberton/topic/language