26.8% ▲ +427.4%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Griffith · Urban Centre
Language in Griffith
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in Griffith than in most similar areas. About 26.8% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has climbed rapidly by 22 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 66.4% of the population, while Italian (5.0%) and Punjabi (4.2%) are the most common other tongues. This diversity is reflected in the 5.7% of residents who speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure of 3.4%.
5.7% ▲ +843.2%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Griffith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112010/griffith/topic/language