2.6% ▼ -13.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Buxton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Buxton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Buxton speaks only English at home, with 86.4% using the language. This makes it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, where the national figure for using another language is 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the Queensland average of 13.2%. Despite this, the 0.6% of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Buxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30463/buxton/topic/language