75.5% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 89.7%
- 2016: 56.0%
- 2021: 75.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Canteen Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Canteen Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 19.7% of people in Canteen Creek speak English only at home. This is a very linguistically diverse area where 75.5% of residents use another language, which is far above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About three quarters of the population use a language other than English at home, though this is 14 percentage points lower than in 2011. The proportion of people who speak little or no English is 8.8%, which is well above the Australian figure of 3.4%.
8.8% ▲ +442.4%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 8.8%
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 Canteen Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722013/canteen-creek/topic/language