2.1% ▼ -26.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bluewater · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bluewater
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 2.1% of people in Bluewater use a language other than English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia. The vast majority of the population speaks only English, which is a much stronger trend here than across Queensland or the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.2% of residents, which is far below the national figure of 22.3% for other languages. Despite this, the 0.4% of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas.
0.4% ▲ +27.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Bluewater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30292/bluewater/topic/language