21.3% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Queanbeyan · Suburb / Locality
Language in Queanbeyan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 72.7% of people in Queanbeyan. While this is the most common tongue, more than one in five residents use another language at home, which is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 21.3% of people use a language other than English at home, though this is well below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Punjabi is the most common non-English language at 2.4%, and 2.3% of residents speak little or no English.
2.3% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Queanbeyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13304/queanbeyan/topic/language