4.4% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barron · Suburb / Locality
Language in Barron
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 92.6% of people in Barron. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, though a small number of residents struggle with English proficiency.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the 4.4% who speak little or no English is among the highest for similar areas and a little above the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
4.4% ▲ —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Barron [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30176/barron/topic/language