6.6% ▲ +343.5%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burketown · Urban Centre
Language in Burketown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 81.4% of people in Burketown (L). While most residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 6.6% over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 6.6% of people using a language other than English is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. No one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure that has fallen since 2016.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Burketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322022/burketown/topic/language