38.8% ▲ +467.2%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Algester · State Electorate
Language in Algester
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 38.8% of Algester residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This shift is dramatic, with the proportion of multilingual residents rising by 32 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language for 56.2% of people, while Mandarin (8.1%), Punjabi (3.2%), Vietnamese (2.6%) and Cantonese (2.6%) are also common. This diversity is reflected in the 6.3% who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most areas and rose by 5.4 percentage points since 2016.
6.3% ▲ +583.5%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Algester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30001/algester/topic/language