33.8% ▲ +99.8%
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mapoon · Council (LGA)
Language in Mapoon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people use a language other than English at home in Mapoon compared to the rest of the state. About 33.8% of residents speak another language, a figure that has risen sharply by 17 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 54.4% of residents speak only English, the 33.8% who use another language is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. A small number of people speak little or no English (2.8%), which is a little above the state average.
2.8% ▲ +187.0%
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34830/mapoon/topic/language