6.4% ▲ +331.2%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burketown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Burketown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Burketown, where 83.3% of people speak only English at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, its use of other languages is far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.4% of people use a language other than English at home, including 2% who speak Tagalog. This is well below the Queensland figure, and notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Burketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30443/burketown/topic/language