9.4% ▲ +97.7%
Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Groom · Federal Electorate
Language in Groom
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Groom compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 9.4% of people in Groom do. This gap is a defining feature of the area, even though the number of non-English speakers has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 85.4% of residents, and the 9.4% who speak another language is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Meanwhile, those who speak little or no English make up 1.7% of the population, which is about the same as the state average.
1.7% ▲ +65.4%
Lower than 53% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Groom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED314/groom/topic/language