4.4% ▲ +88.2%
Lower than 81% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chinchilla · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Chinchilla
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Chinchilla, where 83.5% of people speak only English at home. Very few residents use other languages, though the number of people doing so rose to 4.4% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This is reflected in the very low number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.3%.
0.3% ▼ -33.8%
Lower than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/307011172/chinchilla/topic/language