2.5% ▲ +23.8%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barcaldine · Suburb / Locality
Language in Barcaldine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 85.2% of people in Barcaldine, making it far less linguistically diverse than most of the country. Very few residents use another language at home, with only 2.5% doing so.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 2.5% of people using another language at home is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While very few people speak little or no English, the 0.3% who do is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.3% ▲ +23.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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).
More for Barcaldine
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Barcaldine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30153/barcaldine/topic/language