6.8% ▼ -44.7%
Lower than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ingham · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Ingham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 6.8% of people in Ingham speak a language other than English at home, a figure far below the Australian average. This makes the town much less linguistically diverse than most other areas. English is the dominant language used across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home has fallen by 5.5 points since 2011, with 84.5% now speaking only English. While Italian is the most common non-English language at 3.8%, only 1.1% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
1.1% ▼ -33.8%
Lower than 55% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Ingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/318011464/ingham/topic/language