23.3% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Queanbeyan East · Suburb / Locality
Language in Queanbeyan East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one quarter of people in Queanbeyan East use a language other than English at home. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains a little above the national figure. The area is linguistically diverse, but most residents still speak English fluently.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 23.3% of residents use another language at home, only 2% speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. English is the main language for 71.3% of people, followed by Punjabi at 2.7% and Hindi at 1.3%.
2.0% ▼ -32.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13305/queanbeyan-east/topic/language