6.1% ▲ +45.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Goonellabah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Goonellabah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Goonellabah, where only 6.1% of residents speak another tongue at home. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia. Most people here have no trouble communicating in English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.5% of people at home, with small numbers also speaking Punjabi, Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese. Only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure.
0.6% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Goonellabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11717/goonellabah/topic/language