48.7% ▲ +23.1%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 48.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Torres · Council (LGA)
Language in Torres
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Torres now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 9.2 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Queensland and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 48.7% of people speak another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is the main language for 41.5% of residents, 6.4% speak little or no English, a proportion that is well above the Queensland average.
6.4% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Torres [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36950/torres/topic/language