7.6% ▲ +9.6%
Lower than 63% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tablelands (East) - Kuranda · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Tablelands (East) - Kuranda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in Tablelands (East) - Kuranda, where only 7.6% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it one of the more linguistically uniform areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, which accounts for 82.4% of the population. Very few residents struggle with English, at just 0.9%, a figure that is a little below the Australian average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.9% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 62% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Tablelands (East) - Kuranda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30605/tablelands-kuranda/topic/language