61.9% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.9%
- 2016: 62.4%
- 2021: 61.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hinchinbrook · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hinchinbrook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language use in Hinchinbrook has shifted significantly over the last decade, with more people now speaking a language other than English. Today, 61.9% of the population uses another language at home, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 61.9% of people here speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This is reflected in the diversity of tongues spoken, including Arabic (13.2%), Vietnamese (8.1%) and Hindi (5.1%), and helps explain why 12.3% of residents speak little or no English.
12.3% ▲ +15.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Hinchinbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11922/hinchinbrook/topic/language