6.5% —
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rockhampton · Council (LGA)
Language in Rockhampton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle of similar areas for language diversity, Rockhampton is a place where 86.1% of people speak only English at home. This makes the city far less linguistically diverse than the national average, with only 6.5% of residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 6.5% of people use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure and far below the Australian average. While this is barely higher than it was in 2016, 1.0% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas.
1.0% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36370/rockhampton/topic/language