5.5% ▲ +40.0%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bargara · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bargara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 5.5% of people in Bargara use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than most of Australia, with the vast majority of residents speaking English exclusively.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 90% of residents, the 5.5% who use another language is higher than in most similar areas. Very few people struggle with English here, as only 0.6% speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
0.6% ▲ +86.8%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Bargara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30157/bargara/topic/language