9.4% ▲ +139.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Drayton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Drayton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Drayton than in the rest of the country. While 9.4% of residents use another language at home, this is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 85.1% of residents. Although 9.4% use another language at home—which is much higher than in most similar areas—only 1.3% speak little or no English, a figure slightly below the Australian average.
1.3% ▼ -19.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Drayton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30876/drayton/topic/language