47.8% ▼ -45.6%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 87.9%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 47.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Timber Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Timber Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 40 percentage points fewer people spoke a language other than English at home in Timber Creek between 2011 and 2021. Today, 47.8% of the community uses a language other than English, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While almost half the population uses another language at home, only 3.2% speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure. English is the only language spoken by 37.4% of residents.
3.2% ▼ -38.0%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Timber Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722031/timber-creek/topic/language