4.4% ▲ +1.7%
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southern Downs · Council (LGA)
Language in Southern Downs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Southern Downs compared to most other areas. Only 4.4% of residents speak another language, a figure that has barely changed over the last decade. This makes the region much less linguistically diverse than both the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 88.1% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 22.3% for other languages. Very few people struggle with English here, as only 0.7% speak little or no English, which is a little below the Queensland average.
0.7% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Southern Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36660/southern-downs/topic/language