5.4% ▲ +22.2%
Lower than 75% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ipswich - East · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Ipswich - East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 88.2% of people in Ipswich - East, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 5.4% of residents use another language at home, a figure far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using other languages rose slightly to 5.4% since 2011, though this remains much lower than in most other areas. Very few residents speak little or no English, at just 0.6%, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
0.6% ▼ -6.6%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Ipswich - East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/310031287/ipswich-east/topic/language