13.2% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mareeba · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Mareeba
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 77% of people in Mareeba. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the national average, although it remains typical for Queensland.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 13.2% of residents speak another language at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. While Italian is the most common non-English language at 4.4%, very few people—just 2%—speak little or no English.
2.0% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/306051170/mareeba/topic/language