23.3% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 73% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Centenary · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Centenary
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly a quarter of people in Centenary speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the Queensland average, with the proportion of multi-lingual households rising since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While English is most common at 74.6%, Mandarin and Vietnamese are the next most spoken languages; meanwhile, 2.8% of people speak little or no English.
2.8% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Centenary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30401/centenary/topic/language