6.2% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blacks Beach · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people use a language other than English in Blacks Beach than in most similar areas. However, the 6.2% who do so is far below the national figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of the community.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home for 83.3% of residents. While 6.2% use another language, this is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%, and only 0.4% of people speak little or no English.
6.2% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -36.8%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Blacks Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30277/blacks-beach/topic/language