3.5% ▼ -5.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Clifton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Clifton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Clifton, with very little change in the local linguistic mix since 2011. Only 3.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 90.5% of residents. While 3.5% use another language at home—well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%—only 0.5% of the community speak little or no English.
0.5% ▲ +95.4%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Clifton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30624/clifton/topic/language