16.5% ▲ —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 74.5%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Leigh Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Leigh Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of the people in Leigh Creek speak only English at home. While this is the most common language, there has been a significant rise in the use of other languages in recent years.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 16.5% of residents now use another language at home, a figure that rose 16 percentage points since 2011. Despite this increase, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English in 2021.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 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).
More for Leigh Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Leigh Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422027/leigh-creek/topic/language