6.8% ▲ +48.9%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitsunday · Council (LGA)
Language in Whitsunday
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 81.8% of people in Whitsunday. While the use of other languages has risen to 6.8% since 2011, this is still far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak little or no English, at just 0.8%, which is a little below the state and national figures. Outside of English, the most common languages spoken at home are Mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Italian.
0.8% ▼ -37.5%
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Whitsunday [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA37340/whitsunday/topic/language