13.5% —
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burns Beach (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Burns Beach compared to the rest of the country. Only 13.5% of residents speak a different language, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the typical Australian suburb.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant tongue here, spoken by 82.4% of people. Only 1.3% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
13.5% —
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.3% —
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Burns Beach (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51004/burns-beach/topic/language