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Blue Mountain Heights · Suburb / Locality

Language in Blue Mountain Heights

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language in Blue Mountain Heights, where only 4.7% of people speak another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a very linguistically uniform area compared to most of Australia.

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📍 Blue Mountain Heights, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 91.4% of residents speak only English at home, and the 4.7% who use another language is well below the Queensland average. Despite this, the 0.6% who speak little or no English is actually higher than in most similar areas.

People using another language at home

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4.7% ▲ +46.5%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.6% ▲ —

Higher than 72% 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.

Language used at home

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In Blue Mountain Heights, English only is the majority at 99%; Arabic is next at 1%.

English only 91.4% Arabic 0.9% Greek 0.4%

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 Blue Mountain Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30291/blue-mountain-heights/topic/language