4.5% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Banana · Council (LGA)
Language in Banana
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as similar areas, Banana has a very high proportion of English-only speakers. Only 4.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 82.9% of the population, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 0.8%. This low rate of other language use is consistent with only 1.0% of people speaking little or no English, a figure that is a little below the Australian average.
1.0% ▼ -29.6%
Higher than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.0%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Banana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA30370/banana/topic/language