3.8% ▲ +34.2%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maranoa · Federal Electorate
Language in Maranoa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.8% of people in Maranoa speak a language other than English at home, making it one of the least linguistically diverse areas in the region. English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the population. This means most residents communicate in English for their daily needs.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87% of the population, with only 0.5% of people speaking little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average. While the number of people using another language at home rose slightly since 2011, it remains far below the Australian figure of 22.3%.
0.5% ▲ +0.9%
Lower than 91% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Maranoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED321/maranoa/topic/language