6.3% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Babinda · Suburb / Locality
Language in Babinda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Babinda than the national average. While 6.3% of the community uses another language at home, this is far below the 22.3% seen across Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 84.6% of residents, with Italian being the most common other tongue at 1.6%. Only 0.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the Queensland average of 1.8%.
0.2% ▼ -81.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Babinda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30111/babinda/topic/language