3.5% ▼ -9.2%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Clifton · Urban Centre
Language in Clifton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.5% of people in Clifton use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 90.7% of the population, and the proportion of people using other languages is far below the national figure. Only 0.2% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.2% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Clifton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315021/clifton/topic/language