10.9% ▲ +53.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Elliott · Suburb / Locality
Language in Elliott
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Elliott, though more residents here use another language at home than in most similar areas. About 10.9% of the population speaks a language other than English, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 84.6% of people speak only English, some residents use Italian or Mandarin at home. Very few people struggle with English, as only 1.9% speak little or no English, a figure about the same as the state average.
1.9% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Elliott [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30968/elliott/topic/language