4.6% ▲ +93.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Toowoon Bay · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90.6% of people in Toowoon Bay. This is far below the state and national figures for people who speak other languages at home, making it a very linguistically uniform area.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the 22.3% national figure. While this is low, the 0.9% who speak little or no English is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
4.6% ▲ +93.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.9% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Toowoon Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13934/toowoon-bay/topic/language