70.5% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 74.0%
- 2016: 74.3%
- 2021: 70.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bamaga · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bamaga
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 70.5% of people in Bamaga speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size. This high usage of other languages is reflected in the number of people who struggle with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 70.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the 13.2% seen in Queensland. Consistent with this, 7.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
7.8% ▼ -17.0%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 7.8%
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 Bamaga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30135/bamaga/topic/language